MELBOURNE –
At his first appearance before the court, the Australian cardinal George Pell all allegations of child abuse contradicted. The confidant of pope Francis left Wednesday for the court in Melbourne in a statement read out in which he his innocence, explains. Although the 76-year-old in the courtroom, he said nothing.
The first session was after five minutes had passed. The process will in October be continued. As financial officer for the Vatican was the Australian unofficially the number three key officials in the papal state. As a result of allegations that he as a young priest and later as archbishop in his country boys had trespassed, he was since June not more at his post.
Pell is now the highest catholic priest who, because of accusations of abuse for the court to justify it.