George Pell arrived in the back of a prison van at Victoria’s Court of Appeal this morning, where judges voted 2-1 to dismiss his appeal against a jury’s verdict that he is a pedophile.
Anne Ferguson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, made a public statement just after 9.30am today, to uphold the convictions against Australia’s most senior Catholic cardinal for sexually abusing two choirboys when he was Melbourne archbishop.
The full bench of the Court of Appeal has determined there was sufficient evidence to convict the cardinal of the sexual assault of two choirboys more than 20 years ago, and the jury’s verdict of guilty beyond reasonable doubt is sound.
Handcuffed, Pell who was once one of the most powerful men at the Vatican, will now spend more than three years in prison.
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