Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell has left his prison cell and attended the opening hearing in his appeal against conviction for child sexual abuse.
The 77-year-old was convicted in December on five counts of assaulting two choirboys in Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral in 1996 and 1997.
The Vatican's former number three, who managed church finances and helped elect two popes, was sentenced in March to six years in prison.
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