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Cardinal Jailed for 6 Years Over Child Sex Abuse

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Chief Judge Peter Kidd on Wednesday sentenced Cardinal George Pell, a senior Vatican official to a 6-year jail term with a non-parole period of three years and eight months.

He was found guilty of one count of sexual penetration of a child and four counts of committing an indecent act with a child last December after a secret five-week trial.

While sentencing him, the judge said the cleric had committed “a brazen and forcible sexual attack on the two victims”. “Your conduct was permeated by staggering arrogance.” The judge said.

Pell was prosecuted for abusing 13-year-old choir boys following a mass in St Patrick’s Cathedral in 1996 in Melbourne, Australia where he was serving as an archbishop.

The prosecutors told the court that after telling him they were in trouble for drinking communion wine, Pell forced each boy into indecent acts. He abused one of the boys again in 1997.

“Pell, 77, showed no reaction when his sentence was handed in a hearing broadcast live worldwide on Wednesday from Victoria’s County Court in central Melbourne.” CNN reported on their news site.

George Pell is the most senior Catholic ever to be convicted of sexual abuse.

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