What Archbishop of Melbourne was accused of sexual abuse by the Southwell Inquiry?
Southwell inquiry The Southwell inquiry was an inquiry performed by AJ Southwell, a former Australian judge, into allegations of sexual abuse in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne by a 53-year-old man (who could not be named) who alleged that he was sexually abused in 1961 at a Roman Catholic youth camp when he was 12 years old by George Pell, who at that time was a seminarian and was at the time of the allegation Archbishop of Sydney.
Dennis Ferguson Dennis Raymond Ferguson (5 February 1948 – c. 30 December 2012) was an Australian man convicted of child sexual abuse. In 1988, he kidnapped and sexually abused three children, and was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. Ferguson was forced by public hostility and news media attention to relocate his residence on numerous occasions, from various locations in New South Wales and Queensland.