Cardinal Pell’s final appeal against child sex abuse verdict to begin
Cardinal George Pell leaves the County Court in Melbourne, Australia, on February 26, 2019. He has been found guilty on five charges of child sexual assault after an unanimous verdict on December 11, 2018. – EPA pic, March 10, 2020.
CARDINAL George Pell’s last-chance appeal against his child sex abuse convictions starts in Australia’s top court tomorrow, with his fate now in the hands of the country’s most senior judges. The 78-year-old, who is serving a six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s, is not expected to appear for the two-day High Court hearing in Canberra, where his lawyers will mount a final bid to clear his name.
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