BREAKING: Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex abuse, sentenced to 6 years in prison.
David Crosling / AAP via AP fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.The most senior Catholic cleric ever to be convicted of child sex abuse was sentenced to 6 years in prison in Australia on Wednesday morning.convicted in DecemberPell was convicted for the assault of the 13-year-old boys after he caught them swigging sacramental wine in a rear room of Melbourne's St. Patrick's Cathedral in late 1996.
The jury also found Pell guilty of indecently assaulting one of the boys in a corridor more than a month later. When the conviction became public, Pope Francis' chief aide called it"shocking and painful." Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin also said the Pell case “is an incentive to continue the pope’s line: Fighting against this phenomenon and paying attention to the victims,” according to
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