Cardinal George Pell loses appeal against conviction for child sex abuse

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Former Vatican treasurer George Pell will remain in prison after an Australian appeals court rejected his lawyers' attempts to overturn the disgraced cardinal's conviction for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s

The most senior Catholic official to be convicted of child sexual assault, Pell was sentenced in March to six years in prison, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months, for an attack described by Chief Judge Peter Kidd as"breathtakingly arrogant.

Australia's Cardinal Pell sentenced for 'heinous crimes' 02:35In taped evidence played to a closed court -- to only the judge and the jury -- the man told how he and his friend had snuck away from the rest of the choir to drink wine in the priest's sacristy after mass one Sunday. Both were 13 years old at the time.The man told the court Pell had caught them drinking wine and said something like"you're in trouble," according to Judge Kidd's summary of the case.

 

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Uncorroborated testimony of one person, the alleged victim & accuser, is not evidence. In that case anyone could frame anyone for such a crime. The liberal mafia wanted CardinalPell out of the way as he was palpable & started to seriously investigate corruption at VaticanBank.

Kind of puts another hollow hole in religion doesn't it...power hungry, greedy hypocrites. How can anybody respect a religion that has people like this at the top!?

Scum....the CatholicChurch is a corrupt cartel that should be condemned and shut down. It's filled with atrocities and a Pontifex that shuts his eyes to pedophilia and raping of nuns.

Can anything good come from Vatican?

They are men of God! Disgracing him is akin to disgracing God!

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It couldn't happen to a more deserving man.

The trolls are out defending pedio-priest. Interesting!

That’s nice; he should have stretched his hands unto God!

danbrettig May his holiness George Pell have a girthy donk thrust roughly into his anoose in the big house.

Truly ‘breathtakingly arrogant’. Look at his solemn face while in the world youth mass and just think about what he had done to the kids in the past. Disgusting.

It seems the prosecutors brought two separate charges, two trials, with only the first one serious. The purpose of the second was to give them an excuse to make the first trial secret, so they could get away with rigging it. Then they dropped 2nd charge, which was frivolous.

Wait, no spin on how its Trump's fault? Don't you have an old pic of Trump and his best friend the Cardinal at a party back in 1977? If not Im sure you could create one.

That’s a start

May God help this innocent man.

Has anyone heard from his holyness lately? With all that is happening in the world today he has been absent.

Hopefully he gets some TLC from some BBC in the pokey

He even has the look...

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The Lord will be the Final Judge of these pedophiles .

Good.

More to come. Lots more.

jcankash Lock up him baxide!!!

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