EAn Australian court by a 2-1 majority ruling on Wednesday (Aug 21) upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of child sex abuse.
The Victoria state Court of Appeal rejected Pell's appeal of the unanimous verdicts a jury issued in December finding Pope Francis' former finance minister guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral in 1996 and 1997.
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