Top cardinal gets six years jail for 'appalling' choirboy abuse

Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell was on Wednesday sentenced to six years in prison for the “brazen” sexual abuse of two choirboys, in what the judge lambasted as a “grave” abuse of power.

Wearing a black shirt without his usual white clerical collar, Pell sat largely impassively, hands interlaced on his lap, as Kidd graphically described his “brazen and forceful sexual attack on the two victims”. The cardinal, a household name in Australia with friends that include prime ministers and business magnates, maintains his innocence and will appeal.

The father of the other victim, who died of a drug overdose in 2014, said through his lawyer that the length of Pell’s sentence was “disappointing”. “There is an added layer of degradation and humiliation that each of your victims must have felt in knowing that their abuse had been witnessed by the other,” said Kidd.

I thought George Pell was different, in his exchange with Richard Dawkins he seemed a bit rational compared to all the other religious cretins. I was wrong!!

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