AUSTRALIA
RNZ
April 2, 2020
The High Court of Australia has announced it will hand down its decision on Cardinal George Pell’s final bid for freedom in Brisbane next week.
Australia’s highest court will deliver its decision at 10:00am on Tuesday, 7 April.
Pell is serving a maximum of six years’ jail after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing two choirboys in St Patrick’s Cathedral in 1996 when he was Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne.
He was convicted of one count of sexual penetration of a child under 16 and four counts of committing an indecent act with a child.
The former advisor to the Pope maintains he is innocent.
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