Judge Peter Kidd has sentenced the 77-year-old Australian cardinal six years in jail, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months.
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Catholic priest sentenced to jail for sexually abusing two boys
Cardinal George Pell has been sentenced to 6 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of child sexual abuse which happened decades ago.
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Cardinal Pell was accused of having forceful pedophilic activities two boys at St Patrick’s Cathedral in the 1990s.
Before his sentencing, he remained on a leave of absence from his Vatican position as he faced charges of child sexual abuse.
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Pell was indicted of misbehaviour dating back years ago, during his first years as a priest until he became the Archbishop of Melbourne.
He has been accused of groping two boys at a swimming pool in the city of Ballarat during the 1970s, and also assaulting two members of a choir at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne in the 1990s.
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