A live broadcast will allow the world to watch as George Pell, the highest-ranking Catholic to be convicted of child sexual abuse, is sentenced today.
The disgraced cardinal has had a two-week taste of life behind bars, and on Wednesday he’ll know just how much longer he’ll spend in custody.
One charge of sexual penetration of a child and four of indecent acts with a child each carry a 10-year maximum jail sentence. Anticipating global interest in the sentence, the court has allowed cameras inside to live broadcast Judge Kidd’s remarks. The friends, one who died in 2014, had snuck away to drink wine in the priest’s sacristy when they were “caught” by Pell who assaulted them while masturbating himself amid their pleas to be let go.
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