MELBOURNE: Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years' jail for child sex crimes on Wednesday (Mar 13). He 'may not ...
MELBOURNE: Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years' jail for child sex crimes on Wednesday .Pell, the most senior Catholic clergyman ever found guilty of child sex abuse, was sentenced for assaulting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral in 1996-97.Sitting at the back of the court as Justice Kidd read out his remarks, Pell was impassive and did not wear his white clerical collar with his black shirt and light olive-coloured jacket.
"I am not sitting in judgment of the Catholic Church," Justice Kidd added, vowing to deal with only the facts of the case. Assaulting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral with both present likely caused additional"degradation and humiliation"," he said.The jury was told that Pell abused the two boys after catching them swigging from a bottle of sacramental wine in the sacristy after Sunday mass. He exposed himself and forced one of them to perform oral sex on him, and fondled the boy's genitals while masturbating.
"The acts were sexually graphic. Both victims were visibly and audibly distressed during this offending," he said.
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