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George Pell sentenced to six years in prison for child sexual assault

"I was hoping for 20 (years) but realistically I thought maybe 10, but hey, he's incarcerated, he can't hurt anybody," says victim's father.

Bryce Lowry by Bryce Lowry
13-03-2019 06:32
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Cardinal George Pell has been sentenced by an Australian court to jail for six years for the sexual abuse of two choirboys in the 1990s for which he was convicted in December 2018.

In handing down the sentence on Wednesday, County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd characterised Pell’s abuses as “grave” saying they’d had a “significant and long-lasting impact” on the person known in the case only as J (to protect his identity) upon whose testimony the conviction relied.

“The acts were sexually graphic, both victims were visibly and audibly distressed during the offending,” Chief Judge Kidd told the court.

“There is an added layer of degradation and humiliation that each of your victims must have felt in knowing that their abuse had been witnessed by the other.”

Of the other victim in the case, known as R and who died in 2014 from a heroin overdose, the chief judge said Pell’s actions were certain to have affected him.

“Whilst it is not possible for me to quantify the harm caused, or articulate precisely how it impacted on R in the long run, I have no doubt that it did in some way.”

Following the sentencing, which was broadcast live on ABC television, R’s father said he was unsatisfied with Pell’s punishment of six years.

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“It’s not going to bring my son back,” he said, according to the ABC.

“I was hoping for 20 but realistically I thought maybe 10, but hey, he’s incarcerated, he can’t hurt anybody.”

“I felt like my son’s life was wasted, R’s father added.

“Why was it wasted? For some guy’s two minutes of pleasure.”

About the surviving victim, J, who gave the evidence that convicted Pell, R’s father said: “I want to give him a big hug.”

Cardinal George Pell, who was the third highest ranking Catholic in the world, was sentenced to six years in jail for the molestation of the two boys with a minimum of three years and eight months to be served before being eligible for parole.

Pell had been convicted by a Victorian court in December 2018 of the offence, however a gag order preventing media coverage of the case in Australia was only lifted in February this year.

The cardinal maintains his innocence and a hearing for an appeal is scheduled for June.

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