AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail Australia
March 12, 2019
By Charlie Moore
…- as judge says highest-ranking Catholic official ever convicted of abuse ‘showed no remorse’ for ‘breathtakingly arrogant’ crimes
– Cardinal George Pell was until last month the third most senior Catholic in world
– In December he was found guilty of molesting two choirboys in the 1990s
– On Wednesday the cardinal was jailed for six years by Judge Peter Kidd
– The 77-year-old maintains innocence and is appealing the conviction in June
Cardinal George Pell has been jailed for six years for sexually abusing two teenage choirboys in the 1990s.
The former Vatican treasurer, 77, and top adviser to Pope Francis is the most senior Catholic figure ever to be found guilty of sex offences against children.
Cardinal Pell was found guilty last December of sexually abusing 13-year-old choir boys 22 years ago in the priests’ sacristy of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne.
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