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Australian City With A Dark Secret
Cardinal George Pell was considered by many Catholics here to be one of the good ones, a former school captain at St. Patrick's College in Ballarat who made it from rural Australia all the way to heart of the Vatican.
But as Pell rose through the ranks of the Roman Catholic Church, his hometown concealed a dark secret.
Australia's worst pedophiles were preying on children in Ballarat, then a city of about 60,000 people.
150 people tell an Australian royal commission looking into institutional sex abuse that they had been abused by Catholic priests and brothers across the diocese from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
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