INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Cardinal George Pell leaves the County Court of Victoria court in Melbourne
cathedral in the Australian city of Melbourne 22 years ago, according to a verdict by an Australian jury in December that has been
suppressed by a gag order until now.The boys were assaulted in two incidents in December 1996 and February 1997 after Pell had conducted
Patrick's Cathedral, the city's grandest, according to prosecutors.In the first incident, the Age newspaper reported, Pell caught the two
boys drinking the sacramental wine in a change room
He told the boys they were in trouble, exposed himself, pushed one of the boys close to his penis and then placed his penis in the other
boy's mouth, the court was told.Pell then masturbated while he groped the second boy's genitals, the court was told.In the second incident,
in 1997, one of the victims testified that Pell had pushed him against a wall in a hallway of the cathedral and squeezed his genitals
He reported the incident to police in 2015
The other boy died several years ago, the Age reported.Pell's lawyers have said they will appeal the guilty verdict.A jury convicted Pell on
Pell will be forced to return to court on Wednesday when the judge, Peter Kidd, will hear evidence about his sentence
His bail will be revoked on Wednesday, the judge said Tuesday morning, according to the Age.Pell was from an influential position overseeing
the Vatican's finances following the accusations.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and
is published from a syndicated feed.)
