Posted on 12/12/2018 6:45:49 PM PST by marshmallow
SYDNEY, Australia (ChurchMilitant.com) - A jury has found Cdl. George Pell guilty on all counts related to sexually abusing two altar boys.
According to sources who spoke to The Daily Beast, a jury returned a unanimous verdict Tuesday against the Australian cardinal after three days of deliberation. Church Militant confirmed the news with its own inside sources in Australia. Further details are unavailable, as the court has issued a suppression order to Australian media to "prevent a real and substantial risk of prejudice to the proper administration of justice."
A previous trial resulted in a hung jury.
Pell had been accused of molesting two altar boys during a swimming trip in the 1990s, when he was bishop in Ballarat, a town northwest of Melbourne. Pell has vigorously denied the allegations, and his attorney, Robert Richter, said in 2017 that there is "voluminous" evidence to show that "what was alleged is impossible."
Although multiple accusations were levelled at the cardinal initially, the court threw out most of them.
Pell was named the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy in 2014, making him the third highest-ranking cleric in Rome. He was brought in ostensibly to clean up Vatican finances, exercising oversight over Vatican properties and personnel.
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Jerry Sandusky was married, too.
If the churches would really try to deal with these problems quickly when they arise, there would be far far less need for secular government interference or involvement. Which while sometimes necessary or at least understandable - csn do a church great harm imho.
Frankie decided who was more important and it wasn't the guy cleaning up the mess but the ones causing the economic mess.
What does that say about Frankie?
In order to make the Pell problem go away he got sent back to Australia to face unfounded charges of sexual misconduct.
So, there you go.
Get married to little boys? That’s your answer? I rather disagree with that idea.
Ah . . . good old Cardinal “Adam and Eve are Poetry” Pell!
Oh, and... Pell, while tasked with cleaning up the Vatican´s tangled finances, had hired a major accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, to do a thorough impartal investigation. Within months PWC´s investigation was permanently suspended by Pope Francis and the Australians mysteriously renewed these "historic charges" on which Pell had already been tried and not found guilty.
Some of the higher hierarch have been shielded under the aegis of "diplomatic immunity" or somesuch, Some real felons. But Pope Francis had Pell shipped back to Auatralia as fast as you could say "Adios."
Things that make you go "Hmm...
The "unmarried state" does not cause or enhance predatory behavior; and the "married state" does not prevent predatory behavior.
Do you think being a priest is a good "cover" for being a perv? Being married is an even better one.
And did you ever notice that virtually all the female public school teachers who hook up with underage boy students, are married, with children?
According to a 2007 article in the Insurance Journal, the three companies that insure the majority of Protestant churches in America say they typically receive upward of 260 reports each year of young people under 18 being sexually abused under Protestant church "auspices", and almost all the perps were married.
It has long been thus. Oscar Wilde was married (to Constance Wilde) and had two sons. And even when he had not only a normal wife but also a steady "Beau" (Lord Alfred Douglas) he still went for under-age stable boys, servant's sons, "rent boys" at the club.
Sorry to disillusion you about the miraculous perv-prevention powers of marriage.
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