George Cardinal Pell wins High Court appeal

[Golden Duck 11,910]

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The unanimous decision has been handed down less than a month after the High Court of Australia heard two days of intense legal arguments from the Cardinal's lawyers and Victorian prosecutors.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-07/george-pell-wins-high-court-appeal-child-sex-abuse-convictions/12048726

[Piney 70,867]

.....wtf......

[third_eye 49,978]

.... mysterious "ways"

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[tmcom 824]

Yes, another example of evidence outways, stupid, dumb and f....witted comments, (some from here). I have said from the start he was innocent, with some here saying "he was a convicted, blah, blah" and the media going on a bender, and in the end he was not!

And you know what l have also said that Shapelle Corby was and is innocent, same BS, but that wasn't squashed.

Too many go into mental retardation mode, put a label on it and forget it, tuff if it ruins a life, Evidence and Facts show what is real and what is likely real, not institutions, not the media and not so called experts that are bent.

Being emotionally retarded, and listening to every word, about impending doom or other crap, isn't going to make it any realer, reality will.

But anyway, great day for people like me, who went with evidence than going with the herd.

[Alchopwn 2,669]

15 hours ago, Golden Duck said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-07/george-pell-wins-high-court-appeal-child-sex-abuse-convictions/12048726

There will be blood... (Just sayin').

Edited April 7, 2020 by Alchopwn

[President Wearer of Hats 34,826]

I would be interested in reading the redacted sections of the inquiry into sexual abuse in religious institutions that were redacted because they involved an active court case (Pell’s).

[Golden Duck 11,910]

3 hours ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said:

I would be interested in reading the redacted sections of the inquiry into sexual abuse in religious institutions that were redacted because they involved an active court case (Pell’s).

They'll come now.  But, you may as well say Paul Bongiorno is just as guilty.

[Peter B 3,752]

On 4/10/2020 at 12:36 PM, Sir Wearer of Hats said:

I would be interested in reading the redacted sections of the inquiry into sexual abuse in religious institutions that were redacted because they involved an active court case (Pell’s).

And now they've been released.

This article suggests it doesn't look good for Cardinal Pell: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-08/george-pell-royal-commission-findings-revealed/12225690

...it's clear judges presiding over the five-year Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse repeatedly rejected the Cardinal's evidence to them about the extent of his knowledge that other priests were paedophiles.

Pell had always emphatically asserted that he was kept in the dark. The royal commissioners say he wasn't.

While in some cases his evidence about notorious allegations was accepted by the commission, many of his submissions in relation to what he knew about offending in Ballarat and Melbourne were described as "implausible", "inconceivable" or "not tenable".