Five times guilty: how George Pell's child-abusing past caught up with him in courtroom 4.3

Author : News Master Published: February 26, 2019

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Despite the cardinal’s assertions that the charges against him were ‘deranged falsehoods’, the jury was unanimous

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It was at 3.45pm on Tuesday 11 December that Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis’s most trusted officials and the third most senior Catholic in the world, found out that he would, in all likelihood, be going to jail.

Room 4.3 at the county court in Melbourne was silent as the jury foreman delivered the verdict which – now that a strict suppression order on the case has been lifted – will send shockwaves across the global Catholic congregation.

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