Australian court dismisses cardinal's sex abuse convictions

In this Feb. 26, 2019, photo, Cardinal George Pell leaves the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. Australia’s highest court on Tuesday, April 7, 2020 will judge Pell’s appeal against convictions for molesting two teenage choirboys more than two decades ago. But the legal battle over the world’s most senior Catholic convicted of sexually abusing children may not end there.

Pell was also convicted of indecently assaulting one of the boys by painfully squeezing his genitals after a Mass in early 1997. All the charges were dropped by prosecutors or dismissed by courts in preliminary hearings over the years except the cathedral allegations.Pell did not testify at either trial or at the subsequent appeals.

As police detailed the abuse allegations, Pell responded: “Absolutely disgraceful rubbish. It’s completely false. Madness.”

roccopalmo Careful, your anti-Catholic bias is showing. You can’t say Pell was found guilty! The final judgment is he is not guilty. If you’re going to say he was found guilty, you have to add “preliminarily, until the high court overturned the wrongful conviction.”

Disgusting what you can get away with when you have powerful connections.

Except he wasn't found guilty. Innocent until proven guilty is the law...even for prominant Catholic clergy. noproofofguilt innocentman

Didn't realize Australia was so into child sex abuse. Worthless country.

roccopalmo So he's not guilty, AP.

Darkness no more!

Wrongly convicted of disgusting crimes , hopefully he has a legal team to help correct your writers

Best time to do it, Catholic priests have go ahead from 5 eyes establishment continue just don't get caught next time, their aim to spread immortality

and he can go back to his wicked ways---always wondered why there is so much evil in the religious ranks

Overturning a jury and court of appeals, not because of new evidence or misconduct, but because prior jurors “ought to have” had more doubt is very strange to my mind. This is a logic that could overturn nearly any decision

$$$$ talks...or whatever they use down unda.

Excellent news. An innocent man spent over a year in jail on false charges. Praise God!

So how much was forked out to the judges? 🤔

Disgrace.

A kangaroo court?

Dismissed ? Unbelievable 🙈🤮

Score another win for the cabal

Innocent man is free !

This crook knows how to play the game.

Burn the church to ground

JesusSaves

Australia: The Land Felt Under (of young boys)

Omg

roccopalmo For 400 days Cardinal Pell couldn’t celebrate Mass, guess what he’ll do as soon as he’s out! What an Easter gift!

When did Conrad Black join the clergy?

Way not cool.

To everyone in these replies saying justice hasn't been done - if someone whose politics you agree with in the US was convicted based on the testimony of one person and SCOTUS unanimously overturned the conviction, would you say the same thing?

Can we kill him now?

May God strike him down 🙏

I'm so sorry Australia.

Raped kids and gets away with it. Typical.

This. THIS.

Bulllllllllllssssssshhhhhhhiiitttt

PHYS878

Thank God 🙏🙏 a good and holy man who was targeted by a group of evil hacks. Congratulations to his eminence!!

What the actual fuk?

More like Moloch's court.

It would be good to publicize the legal reasoning from the court. Procedural? Visceral reactions everywhere. Nobody wins in these cases. Reactions from victims? Lawyers?

what does it mean 'dismissed the convictions?' overturned them perhaps? dismiss the case?

What a travesty of justice!

Aún cuando un tribunal lo exculpe sigue siendo un pederasta

EdMorrissey

Justice done Pell never would he's not that stupid

news just keep getting better. no one is held responsible any longer.

DISGUSTING.

SUE THE HELL OUT OF THE ABC

.SaRaAshcraft ?

organized religion thrives on evil

Hi Associated Press, You forgot something... why were the charges dismissed?

Keep giving them money!

I wish I believed in Hell.

A child rapist goes free.

So Australia law stands with a pedophile?

Well we'll. What else is new?

SMH.

I'm not shocked.

I bet he's coming to America as an advisor to Trump

Welp. Someone needs the check the hard drives of the judges on that court now.

Um, what the fuck?

So can we assume Judges were also involved? 🤔

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