Australian Papal Cardinal George Pell has had his sexual assault charges quashed by the Australian High Court and is again a free man. Pell was convicted in December 2018 of raping a 13-year-old choirboy and molesting his friend after a Sunday Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne in 1996. The 77 year old cleric has maintained his innocence since being confronted with the allegations by Australian Police in Rome four years ago.
"Thank God. Cardinal George Pell has been exonerated. Justice has been done at last. A good priest, falsely accused and railroaded through a politically motivated police investigation and an unfair trial, can walk free during Holy Week. An innocent man persecuted as the reviled scapegoat for all the sins of the Catholic Church is free of the most disgusting and implausible charges of child rape after Australia’s highest court Tuesday dismissed the convictions against the Vatican’s former chief financial officer. This was Australia’s Dreyfus Affair, an egregious miscarriage of justice that has destroyed the reputation of the country’s justice system." This is from the NY Post https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/finally-justice-for-george-cardinal-pell-devine/
The Aussie Cardinal's troubles are not over as he faces class actions by the families of the victims. That is unless the High Court rules against that too.
From the article that @Al Amoling linked, there was no evidence that the cardinal did anything, except the word of an anonymous complaint, which didn’t even show up for over 20 years After it was alleged to have occurred. This also just happened to come at a time when the Cardinal was in the act of uncovering massive money discrepancies in the Cathlic church. Coincidence ?
Stinks like week old fish @Yvonne Smith. A Vatican conspiracy and coverup. Was the present Pope in power then or was it his predecessor?