Australia’s Cardinal Pell sentenced to 6 years for sexual assault. He was once considered Vatican’s third most powerful official.
By A. Odysseus Patrick March 12 at 8:13 PM BREAKING: Australia’s Cardinal Pell, once considered the Vatican’s third most powerful official, was sentenced to six years for sexual assault. He will have the possibility of parole after 3 years 8 months and will be registered as a sexual offender for life in Victoria state.
Courtroom broadcasts are rare in Australia, and the decision may be an effort by the court to dispel a perception that Pell, 77, received special protection when it imposed an Internet-wide gag order on his trial and guilty verdict. That order was defied by The Washington Post and other news outlets.
Pell, who oversaw the Vatican’s finances, is one of the most senior Australian religious figures in history. Since the conviction, a powerful network of allies and supporters has emerged to suggest that he may have been a victim of a miscarriage of justice.“Should the appeal fail, I hope and pray Pell, heading for prison, is not the unwitting victim of a nation in search of a scapegoat,” Frank Brennan, a prominent Jesuit priest and human rights lawyer, wrote in the newspaper The Australian.
“They were actively silenced. The weight and might of the church either negotiated them away, disregarded them, told them to go home and left them to a life of peril, a life of misery,” he said. One of Pell’s victims died several years ago of a heroin overdose. The other said he had experienced shame, loneliness and depression.
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