Pell was found guilty of sexual penetration of a child and four counts of committing an indecent act with a child last December after a secret five-week trial. He is the third most important official in the Vatican after Pope and was believed to be succeeding the incumbent Pope.
He is also the finance chief at the Vatican and the Holy See in Rome, being appointed as the first Perfect of Secretariat for the Economy which was created in 2014 by the Pope. He had told the boys that they were trouble for drinking communion wine, and forced the boys into indecent acts.Ĭardinal Pell, now 77, is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church. The offences were done at the St Patrick’s Cathedral, months after Pell was inaugurated as archbishop of Melbourne.
Pell had abused young choir boys in a Melbourne cathedral in 19. Cardinal George Pell, who is third in seniority after the Pope in the Vatican, has been convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys in the late 1990s.Īccording to the reports, George Pell, who was the former Vatican treasurer, is the most senior Catholic figure ever to be found guilty of sexual offences against children.
