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Child sexual abuse

Cardinal Pell’s accuser issues rallying cry for abuse survivors

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The Australian man at the centre of the failed child sex abuse case against George Pell has said he respects the High Court’s decision to overturn the cardinal’s conviction, while issuing a rallying cry to all survivors. In December 2018, a jury convicted Pell, 78, for sexually assaulting two choirboys at a Melbourne Cathedral in 1996. […]

Cardinal Pell leaves Australian jail after over 400 days behind bars

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Cardinal George Pell has left prison a free man after the Australian High Court quashed five convictions for child sexual abuse on Tuesday. Australian media, including the national broadcaster ABC, showed footage of  Pell sitting alone in the back of a black Volkswagen car as it left the maximum-security Barwon Prison, outside Melbourne, where he was serving a six-year jail sentence. […]