Former Vatican treasurer George Pell’s child sex offence conviction should stand: prosecutor by SonaliPaul2
MELBOURNE - Former Vatican treasurer George Pell’s conviction on child sex offences should stand because a victim’s account was truthful, a prosecutor told an Australian court on Thursday, the final day of the cardinal’s appeal hearing.
The 77-year-old, the highest ranking Catholic cleric worldwide to be convicted of child sex offences, is mainly appealing on the grounds that the verdicts were unreasonable based on the evidence, including the account of one of the victims. “The complainant was a very compelling witness. He was clearly not a liar. He was not a fantasist. He was a witness of truth,” said Christopher Boyce, lawyer for the Crown, told the court on Thursday in his opening remarks.
“The question of uncertainty seems to me to be a feature inevitably about events decades earlier,” Victorian Court of Appeal President Chris Maxwell said.
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