‘Witness J’ says the case has not defined him. FMTNews FMTLifestyle
SYDNEY: A former choirboy who accused Australian Cardinal George Pell of molesting him said Wednesday he accepts the top Vatican cleric’s acquittal but urged survivors of child sex abuse to keep coming forward.
“There are a lot of checks and balances in the criminal justice system,” the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said in a statement issued by his lawyer.The court found that the jury that convicted the cleric of molesting Witness J and his friend, both 13 years old at the time, should have had a reasonable doubt about his guilt.
“I would like to reassure child sexual abuse survivors that most people recognise the truth when they hear it.”
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