NEW: Australia's top court ordered Cardinal George Pell to be released from prison after it overturned his child sexual abuse conviction.
Cardinal George Pell makes his way through members of the media outside the court in Melbourne in February 2019. Australia's High Court has overturned his conviction for child sexual abuse.Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/AFP via Getty Images
Cardinal George Pell makes his way through members of the media outside the court in Melbourne in February 2019. Australia's High Court has overturned his conviction for child sexual abuse.Australia's High Court has found reasonable doubt that Cardinal George Pell sexually assaulted two boys in the 1990s and has overturnedPell, 78, had been serving a six-year prison sentence in the case. The High Court ordered that he be released.
He was convicted of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne. As an adult, one of 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.
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."The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference's
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