I’ve never heard of, “historical sex offense.” He groped the Magna Carta?
The charges are 40 years old.
Per an article I read in First Things or Crisis, they've pretty much determined that it was utterly physically impossible for Pell to have abused the boys the way that one of them (now in his fifties, I believe) said that he did. That's probably going to be his defense. It was fascinating reading.
If I remember correctly, the other boy died (as an adult), and insisted before he died that they had lied about Pell abusing them. The prosecution is going ahead with it anyway. Idiots.