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The handler put his whole arm down the crocodile’s throat and began rubbing the inside of the crocodile.

The move follows a period in which Francis faced mounting pressure to take action against Wilson, a top figure in an Australian church that has been deeply scarred by decades of abuse cases.

A family arrived home from a foreign holiday to discover a Sudanese stowaway had hidden under their luxury motorhome for four days.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston issued the appeal with the church in the US still reeling from allegations that another cardinal had been involved in abuse of minors and sexual improprieties with adult seminarians years ago.