Cardinal Pell jailed for 6 years for child sexual abuse

Chief Judge Peter Kidd's sentencing of Cardinal George Pell seen on a TV monitor outside Melbourne County Court

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Disgraced Catholic cardinal George Pell has been sentenced [[Wed]] to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys in Melbourne in the 1990s.


The 77-year-old showed no emotion as the sentence was handed down, but there was plenty outside the court from campaigners for survivors of child sexual abuse.


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