Father wants to ‘hug’ the man whose powerful testimony brought the cardinal to justice
The father of one of Cardinal George Pell’s victims, who died following a heroin overdose in 2014 and who never disclosed being abused, said he wanted to “hug” the man whose powerful testimony brought Pell to justice.
On Wednesday Pell was sentenced by chief judge Peter Kidd to six years in jail with a non-parole period of three years and eight months. The complainant, identified only as J, first told police in 2015 about the abuse of himself and the other boy. It resulted in a trial in which Pell was unanimously found guilty by a jury of five child sexual abuse charges. The other boy was identified only as R. Both boys were 13 when Pell abused them while they were choirboys in 1996.
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