Jailed Australian Cardinal George Pell launched an appeal on Wednesday against his landmark conviction for child sex abuse, branding the charges against him as "bizarre" and "impossible".
Pell, 77, left his prison cell under police guard to attend the two-day hearing, battling his conviction in December on five counts of sexually assaulting two choirboys in Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral in 1996 and 1997.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/05/cardinal-george-pell-calls-child-abuse-charges-bizarre-launch/
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