Posted on 08/14/2019 7:39:14 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A decision on Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against his conviction on historical child sex abuse charges will be handed down at 9.30am on Wednesday, August 21.
Pell, 78, the former Vatican number three, was sentenced in March to six years in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s.
He was ordered to serve at least three years and eight months for the rape of a 13-year-old choirboy and sexually molesting another in the sacristy of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne when he was newly-installed as archbishop.
Pell appealed the conviction in early June and a three-judge panel of Victoria state’s Supreme Court have been deliberating his case since then.
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Needs to be on the religion forum. Then I will post on it.
This is about a lot more than religion. It’s about basic freedoms and justice.
May truth be vindicated and justice be done.
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