BREAKING: Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of child sex abuse. Full story:
Cardinal George Pell. Picture: William WEST / AFP. Source:AFP Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of child sex abuse following a sensational trial in Melbourne. The third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia’s most senior Catholic has been found guilty of raping one choirboy and molesting another in Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral 22 years ago.
Pell has maintained his innocence over all allegations and has lodged an appeal of his conviction. One of the victims, now in his 30s, brought the allegations to police after years of having struggled to understand what he’d experienced. A month or so after he was raped by Pell he was sexually assaulted again, pushed against a cathedral wall by the now-Cardinal who fondled his genitalia. Pell’s other victim died in 2014 in accidental circumstances.
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