New Accusations against Most Senior Catholic Official to Be Convicted of Child Sex Abuse

By Giovanni Torre
The Telegraph
April 2, 2020

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/02/new-accusations-against-senior-catholic-official-convicted-child/

Pell is the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse CREDIT: AP

New allegations of child abuse against George Pell have been made public for the first time, as the disgraced Australian Cardinal awaits the High Court decision on his appeal against convictions for rape and sexual assault.

Pell, once the most powerful Catholic in Australia, became the church's most senior official to be convicted of child sexual abuse in 2018 when he was sentenced to six years imprisonment.

On Thursday it was announced the decision in Pell’s High Court appeal would come next week. Earlier that same day, allegations of sexual abuse were publicly levelled against Pell by two men who had lived in the same orphanage in Ballarat, Victoria, as children.

One of them, whose last name has been withheld, said Pell assaulted him multiple times in the 1970s....