Vatican No. 3 Official Found Guilty Of Sexually Abusing Two Choir Boys: REPORT
Cardinal George Pell convicted in Australia of child assault.
Jan. 4 2019, Updated 9:52 a.m. ET
The Vatican’s third highest ranking official was found guilty of sexually abusing two choir boys in the late 90s.
Cardinal George Pell was convicted by a jury in Australia after a jury deliberated for three days, The Daily Beast reported.
The judge placed a gag order on the Catholic Church official’s trial to prevent details being released during the proceedings. The guilty verdict decision was reportedly unanimous.
Cardinal Pell was the finance chief at the Vatican and reportedly left Rome in June 2017 to stand trail in Melbourne, where he was accused of sexually abusing the choir boys when he was the archbishop.
The victims were reportedly in the choir at St. Patrick’s cathedral and were abused by Pell inside the church.
Cardinal Pell was originally tried for the charges in June but ended with a hung jury, but prosecutors immediately retried the case.
He was the highest ranking Vatican official ever to stand trial for sex abuse.
Cardinal Pell’s office gave a statement to The Guardian in 2017 which said he “repeats his vehement and consistent denials of any and all such accusations.”
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