Senior Vatican official offered bribe to child sex abuse victim, inquiry hears
David Ridsdale tells Australian inquiry that in 1993 he informed Cardinal George Pell about being abused and was offered money to buy his silence
Cardinal George Pell celebrates mass in Sydney in 2014 before leaving for his new position at the Vatican. Photograph: Jane Dempster/AAP
Wednesday 20 May 2015
A senior Vatican official, who is also Australia’s highest ranking cleric, has been accused of attempting to bribe a victim of child sex abuse to keep quiet about the molestation he suffered from a paedophile Catholic priest.
