Cardinal Pell walks free after Australian court acquittal

7-4-2020 Cyprus Mail CyprusMail Cool

Cardinal Pell walks free after Australian court...

Australia’s highest court on Tuesday acquitted former Vatican treasurer George Pell of sexually assaulting two teenaged choirboys in the 1990s, allowing the 78-year-old cardinal to walk free from jail.

The High Court ordered Pell’s convictions be quashed and verdicts of acquittal be entered in their place, ending the most high profile case of alleged historical sex abuse to rock the Roman Catholic Church.

The seven judges of the High Court agreed unanimously that the jury in the cardinal’s trial “ought to have entertained a doubt” as to his guilt. Pell, who has...

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Cardinal Pell walks free after Australian court acquittal

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