Anonymous ID: d83b05 May 27, 2019, 2:19 a.m. No.6600091   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0103 >>0165 >>0395

George Pell will not seek reduced sentence if appeal against guilty verdict fails

Pell has been behind bars since February and is due to return to court next month to fight his conviction.

But he will not be adding an appeal against the six-year prison sentence handed down by County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd in March.

Pell was ordered to serve at least three years and eight months of that sentence after being convicted by a jury in December of one charge of sexual penetration of a child and four charges of committing an indecent act with or in the presence of a child.

Pell raped one 13-year-old choirboy and sexually molested his friend in the sacristy of St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne in 1996 when he was newly-installed as Archbishop.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/george-pell-will-not-seek-reduced-sentence-if-appeal-against-guilty-verdict-fails/ar-AABY63J?ocid=spartanntp