We knew George Pell was guilty of child sex abuse. Why couldn't we say it until now?
- Written by Michael Douglas, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia
Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s most-senior Catholic, one of the most powerful Catholics in the world and a man once praised by Tony Abbott as a “fine man”, molested two choirboys in the 1990s.
On 11 December 2018, a jury found Pell guilty of one charge of sexually penetrating a child under the age of 16, as well as four charges...
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