RESTON (VA)
CNS News – Media Research Center
April 7, 2020
By Bill Donohue
Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on five counts of sexual abuse has been unanimously overturned Tuesday by Australia’s High Court.
He was never guilty of these charges in the first place and is now a free man. The decision by the High Court cannot be challenged.
Pell has suffered greatly and has been the victim of outrageous lies. He has been smeared, spat upon, and forced to endure solitary confinement for crimes he never committed.
This was a sham from the get-go and should never have made its way through the Australian courts.
Pell was charged with abusing two boys in 1996. One of the boys overdosed on drugs, but not before telling his mother—on two occasions—that Pell never abused him. The other boy’s accusation was undercut by the dead boy’s account: they were allegedly abused at the same time and place. There were no witnesses to an offense that supposedly took place after Mass in the sacristy of a church.
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