Thank you to everyone who has signed this petition. To reach over 24,000 signatures in the first 24 hours shows me just how many people are willing to stand with survivors of child sexual abuse.

Today, can you do one more thing for victim-survivors and share this petition?

Louise Milligan has written an analysis of the released details of the report. You can read it in full below, but I wanted to share this section:

The commission found Pell knew of allegations of offending in the Ballarat diocese as early as 1973...

They found he wasn't lied to by the notorious Bishop Ronald Mulkearns, about why they were moving Father Gerald Ridsdale — one of Australia's worst paedophiles [and the man who abused me as a child]— from parish to parish to abuse ever more children. That, said the commissioners, was "inconceivable".

The report says the "conduct of any consultor who did not advise against" Ridsdale being moved on "and who knew the reason Ridsdale … was being moved, is unacceptable."

Pell was a consultor. That is, Pell's conduct was unacceptable.

"The lives of dozens of children and their families, likely to be more than a hundred, were devastated by [Ridsdale's] conduct," the commission found.

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[The] failure, clearly, from this report, extended to George Pell. He is one of the group of people who ensured that a dangerous paedophile was not removed from the school until 12 years after a little girl, Julie Stewart, ran crying from the confessional and straight to her principal to complain of the abuse.

George Pell is alive. He is not a bit player. Apart from being the country's most senior Catholic, he was also probably its most well-known.

This long-awaited report finally lays bare how Pell acquiesced, during what would become a glittering career, in institutional inaction against terrible crimes.

By the findings of the Royal Commissioners alone, history will also not be kind to George Pell.

It is time to defrock Cardinal George Pell, and make him atone for what he has done to victims of child sexual abuse and their families. He protected and defended the very worst offenders. He should be dismissed from the clerical state.

I want every victim-survivor to see this petition, and to see that thousands of people are standing with them, and not these monsters. Can you help me do that, by sharing this petition far and wide?

Paul Levey
Survivor of Gerald Ridsdale

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Read Louise Milligan's article here.

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