Supreme Court rules imaginary Pell-trauma-by-proxy is a thing

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31 Responses to Supreme Court rules imaginary Pell-trauma-by-proxy is a thing

  1. NoFixedAddress says:

    I want to sue the useless father.

  2. Lee says:

    A Victorian court has ruled the father of a former choirboy who prosecutors had alleged was sexually abused by George Pell can pursue civil action against both the cardinal and the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, in a judgment that could pave the way for other families to sue the church.

    “A Victorian court.”
    That figures.

  3. Franx says:

    As mentioned at Dover’s site: the basis for the father to sue seems to be that of the 2015 allegations in the first instance having caused trauma, albeit that the allegations according to the HCA were false. The question then is, who is responsible for the false allegations – not the Catholic Archdiocese nor Cardinal Pell. Rather the allegations can be sourced to the complainant and Vicpol and the DPP.

  4. Lee says:

    He never accused Pell of anything.

    In fact he told his mother it never happened.
    The father seems to not believe his own son.

  5. NoFixedAddress says:

    The father seems to not believe his own son.

    and that is why I want to sue the despicable so called “father”.

  6. Entropy says:

    Come out of her, my people.

  7. Entropy says:

    So what next? Every trial that ends in a nit guilty verdict will be followed by the DPP, Police and Complainant being sued for loss of reputation and discomfort?

  8. Petros says:

    Pell had his chance to sue the ABC, right? Unlike the poor and meek, he failed to fight the ABC even though he would have the wealth and resources to win. We suffer because of this. A missed opportunity.

  9. Entropy says:

    Agree, this is the result of turning the other cheek.

  10. vlad redux says:

    he would have the wealth and resources

    He actually doesn’t.

  11. Petros says:

    Yeah the Catholic church is hard up.

  12. Syd Gal says:

    The civil case will be interesting in light of the many issues with the criminal case. How was it that the investigators or DPP did not seem to do research to work out the time taken/distance for the formal procession to get back inside the Cathedral and the composition of the procession with the senior altar servers playing a major role (and carrying out ‘cleaning up’ duties inside the sacristy when the alleged offending was supposed to have taken place), the large number of choristers (sopranos, altos, basses) and lastly in the procession – the senior clergy? The jury and judges seem to have visited the Cathedral on a weekday not at a busy Sunday Solemn Mass time. The moving animation prepared by the defence was not permitted to be shown. How did the complainant describe finding wine in a storage cupboard in the sacristy that was not yet built in 1996? Evident in the Rome interview with VicPol online. Watch the video of K Judd on the HC website 12 March 2020 around 2:50 to see some of the issues in the case.

  13. vlad redux says:

    Yeah the Catholic church is hard up.

    It doesn’t fund his legal cases.

  14. Not Trampis says:

    A little bit hard to take legal action against Pell if Pell hasn’t been accused of anything.
    the ABC article says He is taking action against Pell so no the ABC is not lying CL has not read his link.

    If this bloke wants to take legal action then he is entitled. It will cost a bit of money and if he does not have a good case he will be giving away good money after bad.

  15. Boambee John says:

    Non Mentis

    A little bit hard to take legal action against Pell if Pell hasn’t been accused of anything.
    the ABC article says He is taking action against Pell so no the ABC is not lying CL has not read his link.

    These sentences seem contradictory, but that might just be your usual incoherent sentence construction. Regardless, Pell has been found Not Guilty by the High Court, which would seem to leave only those who made the allegations to have caused the trauma, including Witness J, Their ABC, and various other journalists and public figures.

  16. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Pell had his chance to sue the ABC, right? Unlike the poor and meek, he failed to fight the ABC even though he would have the wealth and resources to win. We suffer because of this. A missed opportunity.”

    1. Whilst I have some sympathy with your sentiment about suing the ABC, Pell is an elderly man. It takes enormous stamina to endure what he endured. He’s tired, he went to prison for a crime he did not commit, I think he just wants to lead a quiet life.

    2. Pell himself, along with some private donors (that leftist scum tried to out) paid his legal fees, not the Church. He actually admitted, in his interview with Andrew Bolt the day after his HC verdict, that he had very little money left.

    3. However, moving forward I do think it’s time for those on the right to fight back against the endless smears, lies and ridicule routinely vomited up by progressives and their buddies in the MSM. I’m pleased that Lachlan Murdoch is suing Crikey. Bernard Keane, activist journalist at Crikey, wrote and published a piece last month that inferred that Lachlan Murdoch and his father, as owners of Fox News, incited the January 6 riot. Firstly, such a claim is balderdash and secondly, it’s defamatory. I want to see Crikey pay up…big time.

  17. C.L. says:

    the ABC article says He is taking action against Pell so no the ABC is not lying CL has not read his link.

    The link:

    Catholic Church suffers setback as court rules lawsuit brought by Pell accuser’s father can continue.

    The father’s son never accused Pell of anything.

    That is a lie.

  18. C.L. says:

    I want to see Crikey pay up…big time.

    Bankrupted would be better.

  19. Not Trampis says:

    A Victorian court has ruled the father of a former choirboy who prosecutors had alleged was sexually abused by George Pell can pursue civil action against both the cardinal and the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne

    no as usual you are lying and can’t even read the first paragraph of your link.

    Civil action is legal action. you cannot take legal action unless you are accusing someone of something.

    This is simply embarrassing

  20. Lee says:

    the ABC article says He is taking action against Pell so no the ABC is not lying CL has not read his link.

    You are either stupid, lacking reading comprehension, or just disingenuous.
    Or maybe all three.

  21. C.L. says:

    The link:

    Catholic Church suffers setback as court rules lawsuit brought by Pell accuser’s father can continue.

    The father’s son never accused Pell of anything.

    That is a lie.

  22. Boambee John says:

    Non Mentis

    Civil action is legal action. you cannot take legal action unless you are accusing someone of something.

    The action is a claim for trauma after hearing of the allegations against Cardinal Pell.

    As the allegations have been found to be false, it is hard to see (but perhaps not in the corrupt state of Victorian law administration) how Cardinal Pell or the Archdiocese can be sued over allegations that they did not make. The obvious targets should be the Victorian Police and DPP, Their ABC and other media organisations that amplified the allegations (thus increasing the trauma), individual journalists who wrote books on the subject, and silly politicians who also sought the limelight.

  23. Lee says:

    As the allegations have been found to be false, it is hard to see (but perhaps not in the corrupt state of Victorian law administration)

    Glad that you wrote that, not me, John.
    As a Melburnian, if I wrote it I might get a visit from the local constabulary and wind up being arrested and handcuffed, in pyjamas, in my own living room!

  24. Boambee John says:

    Lee

    Implicitly supporting me might bring the same result.

  25. Old Lefty says:

    I make, of course, no imputations about the quality of the Victorian judiciary.

    But I note as an unadorned, neutral matter of fact, that the judge in this case made his way into the law as a union advocate – a fact from which I draw no inferences.

    Similarly, I note the coincidence between the filing of this case and the approach of the Victorian election in November. But of course I make no inferences about cause, effect or motivation.

    I am sure that Victoria has the best system the Socialist Left of the state ALP can find.

  26. Paul says:

    If this bloke wants to take legal action then he is entitled. It will cost a bit of money

    So what did happen to those secretive transfers of money from the Vatican bank to an Australian account which have been disbursed into the ether ?

  27. Old Lefty says:

    The ABC providing free advertising at the taxpayers’ expense for its pet gaggle of leftist compo lawyers:

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-26/families-clergy-abuse-victims-legal-precedent-litigation/101374948

  28. John says:

    Interesting that the period is July 1996 to December 1996, and that the February 1997 alleged incident is not included.

  29. Boambee John says:

    John says:
    31 August, 2022 at 7:28 pm
    Interesting that the period is July 1996 to December 1996, and that the February 1997 alleged incident is not included.

    He probably has not caught up with the changes made in the accuser’s story, to make the dates fit with reality.

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