Former Vatican treasurer George Pell will remain in prison after an Australian appeals court rejected his lawyers' attempts to overturn the disgraced cardinal's conviction for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s
The most senior Catholic official to be convicted of child sexual assault, Pell was sentenced in March to six years in prison, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months, for an attack described by Chief Judge Peter Kidd as"breathtakingly arrogant.
Australia's Cardinal Pell sentenced for 'heinous crimes' 02:35In taped evidence played to a closed court -- to only the judge and the jury -- the man told how he and his friend had snuck away from the rest of the choir to drink wine in the priest's sacristy after mass one Sunday. Both were 13 years old at the time.The man told the court Pell had caught them drinking wine and said something like"you're in trouble," according to Judge Kidd's summary of the case.
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