Australia's High Court to hear Pell abuse appeal Wednesday

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The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse will take his appeal to Australia's highest court on Wednesday in potentially his last bid to clear his name.

Cardinal George Pell was sentenced a year ago to six years in prison for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne's St. Patrick's Cathedral while he was the city's archbishop in the late 1990s.

Pope Francis' 78-year-old former finance minister will argue before the High Court that the guilty verdicts were unreasonable and could not be supported by the whole of the evidence including more than 20 prosecution witnesses including priests, altar servers and former choirboys. The court will effectively hear Pell's appeal in its entirety before they technically decide whether they will even hear his appeal.

 

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This happens in all religions. At least the Catholic Church is beginning to show accountability, unlike most other male dominate religion that cower in the shadows of denial.

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