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+ | **The Pope Was Unavailable For Comment As He Was Too Busy Praying With Colombian Crackheads.** | ||
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+ | Updated at 1:15 a.m. ET on March 7 | ||
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+ | The court acquitted the former Vatican treasurer of the charges, and no retrial will be possible. The High Court ordered that he be released. | ||
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+ | Pell, 78, had been serving a six-year prison sentence in the case after he was convicted in December 2018 of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys at St. Patrick' | ||
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+ | As an adult, one of his them went to the police in 2015 and accused the cardinal of abusing him and the other boy in 1996. The other individual died of a heroin overdose the previous year without reporting abuse. | ||
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+ | Pell's conviction wasn't made public until Feb. 2019 and in August, the Victorian Court of Appeal upheld those convictions. An earlier trial in 2018 resulted in a deadlocked jury. | ||
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+ | Pell didn't testify at either trial or at his subsequent appeals, but he did forcefully maintain his innocence in a police interview video in 2016 that was shown to jurors. In it, he called the allegations against him "vile and disgusting" | ||
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+ | He was originally ordered to serve three years and eight months before being eligible for parole. | ||
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+ | In a statement after the acquittal, as reported by Reuters, Pell said, "I hold no ill will toward my accuser, I do not want my acquittal to add to the hurt and bitterness so many feel; there is certainly hurt and bitterness enough." | ||
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+ | The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference' | ||
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+ | "The result today does not change the Church' | ||
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+ | Pell was selected in 2014 by Pope Francis to run the Vatican' | ||
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+ | The Vatican had been conducting its own investigation of Pell. However, after Australian appellate court' | ||
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