BREAKING: An Australian court by a 2-1 majority ruling Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of children sex abuse.
MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian court by a 2-1 majority ruling Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, theThe Victoria state Court of Appeal rejected Cardinal George Pell's appeal of the unanimous verdicts a jury issued in December finding Pope Francis' former finance minister guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne's St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1996 and 1997.
In a little more than a year, the pope has acknowledged he made"grave errors" in Chile's worst cover-up, Pell was convicted of abuse, a French cardinal was convicted of failing to report a pedophile, and a third cardinal, former U.S. church leader Theodore McCarrick, was defrocked after a Vatican investigation determined he molested children and adults.
Pell's lawyers argue the events in 1996 as described in the prosecution case were"improbable and even impossible" to have happened quickly and in part of the cathedral where altar servers and priests were likely to walk in at any moment. Flynn said a Pell win would be"devastating" for the father, but the father would continue with a civil suit against Pell and the church regardless of the outcome.
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