Guardian Australia's Melbourne bureau chief, Melissa Davey covered Cardinal George Pell's evidence at the royal commission into child sexual abuses, and attended each of his trials for his alleged historic sexual offences against children - his committal hearing, mistrial, retrial, and appeals.
Melissa Davey is a Walkley award-winning journalist and has been The Guardian's Melbourne bureau chief for several years. She has been nominated for three Walkley awards and two Quill awards, and has won two New York Festival awards for The Reckoning, a podcast series she collaborated on with David Marr and Miles Martignoni. She has also won awards from medical bodies for her work reporting on rheumatic heart disease in Aboriginal children, and for her investigation into the brutality of gynaecologist Emil Shawky Gayed. Her investigation into Gayed triggered a government inquiry. Melissa frequently appears on BBC World News, and commercial radio in Australia and overseas. Previously she worked for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun Herald, and News Ltd.
"At last, the secret trials of George Pell are revealed in
compelling detail by one of the very few who was there throughout.
With unmatched authority, Melissa Davey answers the questions that
haven't gone away: why was the cardinal found guilty, and why was
he then set free?"
--David Marr
"Melissa Davey, Guardian Australia's Melbourne
bureau chief, spent hour after hour and day after day in the back
of courtroom 4.3 of the southeastern state of Victoria's County
Court. Her resulting volume, The Case of George Pell: Reckoning
with Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy, is an invaluable resource.
Part transcript, part diary of interviews with many of the trials'
major players, part wider analysis of the devastating price victims
pay in reporting abuse, Davey's volume pulls back the curtain on
the once-secretive process--allowing readers a unique opportunity
to evaluate the case against Pell, and his defense, for
themselves."
--Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter
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