A judge revoked Cardinal George Pell's bail and said the disgraced cleric's sentence would be announced on March 13. The bail revocation means Pell must remain jailed until then.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.MELBOURNE, Australia — The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up.
On Wednesday, a judge revoked the cardinal's bail and said he would announce the disgraced cleric's sentence March 13.Victorian state County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd said Pell was guilty of a breach of trust with an element of brutality and had had a sense of impunity. He said,"I see this as callus, brazen offending — blatant."
Details of the trial had been suppressed because until Tuesday, Pell had faced a second trial in April on charges that he indecently assaulted two boys aged 9 or 10 and 11 or 12 as a young priest in the late 1970s in a public pool in his hometown of Ballarat.Prosecutor Fran Dalziel told the court on Tuesday that the Ballarat charges had been dropped and asked for the suppression order to be lifted.
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