Pell appeal

A prosecutor yesterday argued in Australia’s highest court that Cardinal George Pell’s convictions for child sex abuse should stand and what may be his final appeal should be rejected. The former Finance Minister to Pope Francis is the most senior Catholic ever convicted of child sex abuse. Pell is serving six years in prison for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in the late 1990s. The High Court earlier heard Pell’s lawyers argue that an apparently truthful victim was not enough to dispel reasonable doubt about guilt. It is not known when the judges will deliver their rulings.