Top cardinal gets 6 years jail for ‘appalling’ choirboy abuse
Protesters outside the County Court react to the sentencing of George Pell in Melbourne, Australia, 13 March 2019. Cardinal Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia's most senior Catholic has been sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of child sexual abuse. – EPA pic, March 14, 2019.
DISGRACED Australian Cardinal George Pell was yesterday sentenced to six years in prison for the “brazen” sexual abuse of two choirboys, in what the judge lambasted as a “grave” abuse of power. The former Vatican number three – who managed church finances and helped elect two popes – was sentenced in a Melbourne court on five counts, including oral rape and molestation of boys in 1996-1997.
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