The former prime minister John Howard has described Cardinal George Pell as “a person of both high intelligence and exemplary character” and says that his conviction on child sexual abuse charges doesn’t “alter my opinion of the Cardinal” in a character reference.
Howard’s reference was published in full in the Herald Sun shortly after another former prime minister, Tony Abbott, described the George Pell verdict as “devastating … for the friends of Cardinal Pell”.
Howard was one of 10 people to submit a character reference to Melbourne’s county court on Wednesday during a sentencing hearing after Pell was found guilty of five counts of child sexual abuse in December last year.
Shoulder to shoulder with Australia's worst paedophile priest: George Pell accompanies his housemate who assaulted 65 children to court in chilling footage taken 25 years before the cardinal's own conviction
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- Created: Wednesday, 27 February 2019 11:02
- Written by Charlie Moore - Daily Mail Australia
- Cardinal George Pell was in December convicted of molesting two choirboys
- Footage emerged of him accompanying Australia's worst paedophile in 1993
- In the video, Pell walked into court in support of his housemate Gerald Ridsdale
- Ridsdale is in jail aged 84 for assaulting 65 children in Ballarat over decades
Cardinal George Pell walked into court with Australia' worst paedophile priest who assaulted 65 children in the hope his support would lessen the pervert's sentence.
Walking shoulder to shoulder in footage broadcast around the country, Pell accompanied Gerald Ridsdale to Melbourne Magistrates Court in May 1993.
Maltese monsignor’s alibi for convicted Australian Cardinal torn to shreds
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- Created: Sunday, 25 August 2019 20:22
- Written by Independent.com.mt
An alibi and a series of explanations offered by Monsignor Charles Portelli in the explosive child sex abuse case which has seen Australian Cardinal George Pell incarcerated in protective custody and serving a minimum of three years and eight months of his six-year sentence before becoming eligible for parole, did not stand up to scrutiny and collapsed in court this week.
Monsignor Charles Portelli, a Maltese-born immigrant to Australia, not a descendant of immigrants, has been described as being like Cardinal George Pell’s ‘bodyguard’.
George Pell’s lawyer says child abuse was ‘plain vanilla’ sex as cardinal heads to jail
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- Created: Wednesday, 27 February 2019 09:55
- Written by Melissa Davey - AAP
Robert Richter has apologised for his “terrible choice of phrase” in describing George Pell’s sexual abuse of a 13-year-old choirboy as “vanilla sexual penetration”.
The queen’s counsel has been widely criticised for the remark, which came during a plea hearing for the cardinal who is now behind bars awaiting sentence for orally raping the boy, and molesting him and another 13-year-old after a Sunday mass in 1996.
George Pell returns to court, prosecutors push for 'immediate' jail sentence for child sex abuse
- Editors notes: This paedophile enabled hundreds of other paedophiles to sexually abuse children for decades. Only a paedophile protects a paedophile.
- Abusers job or title:: Cardinal
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- Created: Thursday, 28 February 2019 19:38
- Written by Emma Younger & Staff - ABC News
George Pell's lawyer has described his crimes as "no more than a plain vanilla sexual penetration case", but a prosecutor says they were brazen, forceful and humiliating acts, at a court hearing to consider the cardinal's sentence.
In submissions to Victorian County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd during a plea hearing, Pell's barrister Robert Richter QC said the offences were "no more than a plain vanilla sexual penetration case where the child is not volunteering or actively participating".
- Abuser Name or Alias:: George Pell
- Abusers Organisation:: Catholic Church
