AUSTRALIA
the free thinker
December 12, 2018
By Barry Duke
At the end of a trial believed to have cost him millions, the Vatican’s third most powerful official – George Pell – was convicted yesterday (Tuesday) in Australia of all charges relating to the abuse of two choir boys in the late 1990s.
A unanimous jury returned its verdict after more than three days of deliberations
His trial was trial conducted under a gag order by the judge that prevented any details of the case being made public.
Pell, the Vatican’s finance chief and the highest Vatican official to ever go on trial for sex abuse, left Rome in June 2017 to stand trial in Melbourne.
As that trial was about to get underway in June, a judge placed a suppression order on all press coverage in Australia. Prosecutors applied for the order and it was granted to:
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