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malaise

(269,024 posts)
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 05:00 PM Feb 2019

Why isn't there more coverage of Cardinal Pell's Pedophile conviction?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/26/cardinal-george-pell-vatican-treasurer-found-guilty-of-child-sexual-assault

Cardinal George Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia’s most senior Catholic, has been found guilty of child sexual abuse after a trial in Melbourne.
A jury delivered the unanimous verdict on 11 December in Melbourne’s county court, but the result was subject to a suppression order and could not be reported until now.
A previous trial on the same five charges, which began in August, resulted in a hung jury, leading to a retrial.

Pell, who is on leave from his role in Rome as Vatican treasurer, was found guilty of sexually penetrating a child under the age of 16 as well as four charges of an indecent act with a child under the age of 16. The offences occurred in December 1996 and early 1997 at St Patrick’s Cathedral, months after Pell was inaugurated as archbishop of Melbourne.

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Five to ten years coming up - throw away the key.
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Why isn't there more coverage of Cardinal Pell's Pedophile conviction? (Original Post) malaise Feb 2019 OP
I think the ugly explanation is simply this DFW Feb 2019 #1
Catholic Church? CDerekGo Feb 2019 #2
I bet there is ttuth in what you say. BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #3

DFW

(54,399 posts)
1. I think the ugly explanation is simply this
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 05:02 PM
Feb 2019

We have grown so used to hearing stories like this that it has become routine by now to hear of it.

Sad, as that may sound.............

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