Cardinal George Pell freed after conviction overturned

Cardinal George Pell has been freed from prison after Australia's High Court unanimously overturned his conviction on five counts of historical child sex abuse. CNN's Anna Coren has the details. #CNN #News

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    1. @Catherine Wacker These superstitious and primitive clowns follow an ancient desert ideology..how embarrassing. They can’t even get their genesis right..from the get-go they promote pseudoscience, much less all the immorality found in their cult handbooks (the bible, quran etc.) – like stipulating slavery, condemning gays and lesbians, and teachings billions that non-believers are going to burn in some supernatural realm.
      Utter fuckery..psychotic cults.

    2. Disgusted with the criminal justice system? I don’t blame you. Look what they did to Linda Chamberlain.

    1. @Norrin Radd
      How dumb are you.
      In our society we don’t jail people because of what group they belong to or what they ”may have done”.
      All SEVEN !!! judges found this conviction to be flawed.
      But because you hate christians so much you reckon he should be locked up anyway. Because being a catholic priest he must be guilty of something. 🙄
      Get a grip on your hysterical bigotry dear lady.

    2. @Norrin Radd
      So are the 7 High Court judges also enablers ?
      The Victorian criminal justice system is the most corrupt and unreliable in Australia……fact !
      You have no problem jailing people purely on who they are and what they represent.
      You’re a fascist and a lowlife.

    3. @FatAss David
      Blah blah blah.
      Your comment exposes your religious bigotry.
      Do you also hate muslims, jews, hindus and buddists?
      Here’s a newsflash for you mate. In our society you have the ‘RIGHT’ to believe whatever you like.
      Just like your right to be athiest.
      Try to control your hysteria and religious bigotry.
      You dickhead.

  1. Damn talk about taking advantage of a global epidemic. Bill cosby and Weinstein should have hired these lawyers.

    1. @KoreanBritish Weinstein will never go to prison. He’ll be considered “vulnerable” due to virus, and placed on house arrest at one of his mansions. And Bill Cosby will be released soon under same pretense. Hell, Charlie Manson may be “freed” next.

  2. Kinda looks like and sounds like how they would conveniently treat the leader of a certain country in the west if he was ever convicted of anything.

    1. Kinda sounds like you’re being smart. Funny for a sheep person who watches fake MSM. Pedogate was real dumbdumb. Michael Obama has a penis you can slob on soyboy. Then whack off to Creepy Joe Biden sniffing children videos low IQ libtard.

    2. Wake Up why do people with lower iq always try to use that as an insult? I notice Trump supporters specifically do that a lot. Not conservatives in general, just them. Also there’s a 85-90% chance that my actual iq is higher than yours. Lol.

  3. this happens every where they walk and they lock ppl up foe smoking weed ha ha the law is dirty

    1. @REAL BLACKS KNOW THE TRUTH well if anything that feels good isn’t always good then we should make alcohol illegal right? What about cigarettes?

    2. @Joe Krafft but you can utilize alcohol for more than just feeling good you can’t do the same thing with drugs

    3. @Joe Krafft are you going to a Rastafarian Church it smoking marijuana? Or you just smoking it in your house? It’s a big difference I’ve been to a Rastafarian church as a matter of fact is one a block away from my home. I never said that weed was bad I smoke weed. I said that everything that feels good is not necessarily good for you. There are times where you spiritually will need to drink alcohol oh, there was spiritually times where you may have to smoke a cigar! That doesn’t necessarily have to do with feeling good everything has a purpose but you must use those resources in the correct manner that is my point grow up and become an adult and when you do you’ll understand

    4. @REAL BLACKS KNOW THE TRUTH Look man I’m not telling you to grow up so don’t tell me. I’m not saying use it irresponsibly. You should be using everything responsibly. My point was that weed isnt as bad as some other things out there, such as alcohol, which is legal and kills 88,000 people a year. I’m not exactly sure what you’re getting at though.

    1. @REAL BLACKS KNOW THE TRUTH “Why you no focus on your studies?”
      Nice Chinese impression there!

    2. @Exterioris-vallem I don’t know whether you genuinely felt that was supposed to be an insult but the world is not really in a position to be insulting each other right now I think you really need to take a step back brother

    3. @dudewheresmyjunk I never said I didn’t smoke weed I smoke weed I said it shouldn’t be used by teenagers who are not able to handle that kind of drug you got to take your real life in priority and a lot of teenagers don’t you really need to grow up and maybe if you had more money in your pocket instead of smoking so much weed maybe you wouldn’t have to point the finger at Donald Trump so much you might just be just as rich as him

    4. @REAL BLACKS KNOW THE TRUTH Jesus you’re fucking stupid…maybe you should put it down. Stick to talking about things you know…there should be silence now

  4. Meanwhile, The Altoona Diocese in Pennsylvania allowed 100s of priests to abuse thousands of children for decades and suffered no accountability.

    1. @Matilda Greene  But it’s not strange that priests are pedophiles…

      Bible verses supporting pedophilia:
      Numbers 31:1-18
      Deuteronomy 20:10-14
      Judges 21:7-11
      Judges 21:20-23
      Exodus 21:7-10

      Bible verses condemning pedophilia:
      NONE.

    2. @Matilda Greene How old are you, btw? Your comment indicates adolescence at best. People become doctors to help facilitate people’s well-being, and because it’s a very exciting and demanding job.

      I have to assume you’re a child, based on your comment about “intimately messing with tons of bodies” as gross.
      Not much understanding of the medical profession there.

      Yes, there are people who actually want to help others, and they’re called doctors and nurses.

      Who would you go to for help, if not for doctors? Jesus, perhaps?
      Good luck praying cancer away!

    1. Both of them should be out. Both are innocent.

      Lucky for Pell it’s the corrupt Victorian assholes that were after him, and he finally got a fair hearing in the national High Court.

    1. Neil LOOK at the case- no evidence, only hearsay from 30 years ago. Find another “sexual abuser” in history who had only one victim, and abused only ONCE! Its just does not happen. Would you like to be convicted based on the hearsay of someone that had mental health issues and died 12 years ago? Think about it.

  5. He’s a Pope Francis’ former finance minister. He was part of a huge Vatican audit, we’re talking about billions of dollars here. If that doesn’t tell you anything, you’re an idiot.

    1. Audits go on everywhere all the time. They expose wrongdoing. If Pell was part of it, he was a good guy.

    2. Yes, he was apparently very effective and was exposing Vatican corruption – and it was at about this time that these allegations suddenly came out of nowhere. He was framed.

  6. Your irresponsible acts and words will stalk you with ball and chain, until you pay your dues.

    He may have been released from gaol today, but not from his karmic debt. 🧟‍♀️ Be assured.😑

  7. Watch and wait, where there is one or or two fondling allegations there are usually more to come…

    1. I hope so, but for all we know they may have died already like his first victim who killed himself

    2. Adam Oakes Totally unrelated to paedophilia but these chaps really ought to start with openness about their homosexuality: that said, many are straight or Bi of course. Reporting crimes is so hard on every level for victims as the culture is horrendously repressed. Sex education in RC schools is laughable.

    3. Adam Oakes
      “I hope so” yeah so you hope children actually got raped in the past just so you can see a person locked up because you hate his church – makes sense

    4. Max Plankton in this instance hundreds and they will be forming a queue right now. Hopefully Pell is never given a moments peace from litigation for the balance of his awful life

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