Pell, who has maintained his innocence and plans to appeal, appeared in a Melbourne court after being convicted on five offences including oral rape and molestation of the boys in 1996-1997.
He was ordered to sign the sex offender register and stood as the judge set the minimum sentence Pell would have to serve at three years and eight months, due to Pell’s “otherwise blameless life.”Pell was found guilty of cornering the two boys, who were aged 13 at the time and on scholarships to the prestigious St Kevin’s College, in the sacristy after Sunday mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral in December 1996, when he was archbishop of Melbourne.
The judge added that the attack, and another two months later, in 1997, when he forced one of the boys up against the wall of a corridor and grabbed his genitals had a “profound impact” on the life of his victims. He began the hearing, which was broadcast live, by stating that Pell was “entitled to the balanced and steady hand of justice” and lamenting “lynch mob mentality” among some of the public.Pell did not take the stand in his defence, but in a video of his police interview in Rome in 2016, he called the allegations against him “deranged falsehood” and “a load of absolute and disgraceful rubbish”.
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