AUSTRALIA
Al Jazeera
April 13, 2020
By Victor Sande-Aneiros
The overturning of Cardinal Pell’s conviction may feel like a set-back, but there could be a positive impact.
One of the most senior figures of the Catholic Church to be tried and convicted of child sexual abuse is now a free man.
On April 7, Australia’s highest court overturned Cardinal George Pell’s six-year prison sentence for the alleged sexual abuse of two choir boys in 1996 on the basis that the evidence presented in the case had not proven his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The High Court judges unanimously ruled that there was “a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted”.
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