St Patrick’s Cathedral vandalised after George Pell’s release

AUSTRALIA
The Age

April 8, 2020

By Jewel Topsfield

Scrawled on doors under a gothic-revival arch at St Patrick’s Cathedral in East Melbourne – where Cardinal George Pell’s accuser had alleged he was sexually abused – was graffiti next to a dripping upside-down cross.

The night after Cardinal Pell was released from jail after the High Court ruled there was reasonable doubt requiring his acquittal of charges that he abused two choirboys in the 1990s, graffiti was also spray-painted on the cathedral forecourt.

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