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AUSTRALIA
Al Jazeera

April 13, 2020

By Victor Sande-Aneiros

The overturning of Cardinal Pell’s conviction may feel like a set-back, but there could be a positive impact.

One of the most senior figures of the Catholic Church to be tried and convicted of child sexual abuse is now a free man.

On April 7, Australia’s highest court overturned Cardinal George Pell’s six-year prison sentence for the alleged sexual abuse of two choir boys in 1996 on the basis that the evidence presented in the case had not proven his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

The High Court judges unanimously ruled that there was “a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted”.

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