AUSTRALIA
The Daily Beast
December 11, 2018
By Lachlan Cartwright
The highest-ranking Catholic Church official to face such criminal charges.
The Vatican’s third most powerful official has been convicted in Australia on all charges he sexually abused two choir boys there in the late ’90s, according to two sources with knowledge of the case.
A unanimous jury returned its verdict for Cardinal George Pell on Tuesday (Australian time) after more than three days of deliberations, the sources said, in a trial conducted under a gag order by the judge that prevented any details of the trial being made public.
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