Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Cardinal Pell appeals

From today's Guardian
George Pell, the most senior Catholic convicted of child sexual abuse, has been taken from prison to hear the beginning of his appeal in a Melbourne court. 
The disgraced cardinal was dressed in black and wearing his clerical collar as he listened to his lawyer argue that the prosecution’s case about when the historic offences took place were flawed and that his client should be acquitted on grounds that his conviction was unreasonable.

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