AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
November 11, 2019
A decision on whether disgraced cardinal George Pell can appeal his child sexual abuse conviction in the High Court will be made this week.
The court will announce its decision at 9.30am on Wednesday in Canberra.
Pell, 78, was found guilty by a jury of the rape of a 13-year-old choirboy and sexual assault of another at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne in 1996 but Australia’s most senior Catholic has always denied any wrongdoing.
If the leave is granted, the jailed cardinal’s lawyers will need to lodge a formal appeal.
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