The Australian cardinal Pell has been acquitted of the sexual assault on two boys guilty. He is the highest-ranking Catholic cleric who was convicted of abuse of children.
The Australian cardinal and high-ranking Vatican representative George Pell has been convicted of child abuse. The judgment against the 77-Year-old had already fallen in December, but so far under wraps. A sentence has not yet been announced. His lawyer wants to appeal.
Pell was found guilty, in the 1990s wei boys’choir of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne sexually assaulted. The victims were at that time twelve and 13 years old. The judgment against the 77-Year-old had already fallen in December, but so far under wraps. Pell is so far the highest-ranking Catholic cleric who was sentenced due to allegations of sexual abuse.
Pell rejects allegations
Pell had dismissed the charges against him in may as “completely wrong”. In front of an Australian abuse Commission of the 76 admitted-a Year old, but errors in handling abuse allegations against a Catholic priest in the 1970s. In the meantime, the Church has paid thousands of victims as compensation, the equivalent of more than 276 million euros.
Australian media reports, according to Pell by two men, is accused to have you at the end of the 70s, abused. In addition, he should have shown in the 80s, naked in front of three boys. Pell rejected the allegations, saying it was “outrageous smear campaign” against him. Recently, a book that contained new details of the allegations against the Australian cardinal appeared.
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