Cardinal George Pell has appeared in a Melbourne court to appeal his conviction on charges related to child sexual abuse
Cardinal George Pell’s lawyer Bret Walker SC has told three judges presiding over his client’s appeal that the timing of Pell’s offending was a “critical matter” in deciding whether his conviction should be overturned.
Walker is appealing Pell’s conviction on three grounds, the key one being that the jury came to an unreasonable verdict based on the evidence before them during the trial. Jurors heard that the first offences, which involved Pell sexually assaulting two 13 year-old choir boys after Sunday solemn mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, most likely occurred on either 15 or 22 December 1996. Pell orally raped one of the boys during this incident, and indecently assaulted both of them.
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