MELBOURNE, Australia — The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse was sentenced in an Australian court on Wednesday to six years in prison for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral more than 20 years ago.
The 77-year-old denies the allegations and will appeal his convictions in the Victoria Court of Appeal on June 5. But the judge also said that Pell had abused his position of power and had shown no remorse for his crimes. Kidd described the assaults as egregious, degrading and humiliating to the victims.
One of Pell’s victims died of a heroin overdose in 2014 at the age of 31 without ever reporting the abuse. The survivor made a statement against Pell the following year to a police task force set up to investigate allegations that arose from a state parliamentary inquiry into handling of child abuse by religious and other nongovernment organizations.
Is he the same guy that defended himself with 'was just vanilla sex' with a student and at the same time fought LGBTQ rights
Finally some accountability for these evil predators! lets get this trend going!
Proof of the existence of a global network of pedophiles.