mo4ch:>Vatican's former 3rd top man sentenced to 6 years over child sex abuse in groundbreaking trial | Mo4ch News
A Melbourne court has sentenced Cardinal George Pell, a former close ally of Pope Francis, to six years behind bars with a possibility of parole. Pell was found guilty of five counts of historic child sex crimes.As he delivered the hugely-anticipated verdict, Chief Judge Peter Kidd said that he decided to "impose a shorter non-parole period" than he would have done otherwise while taking into account Pell's age of 77.He also mandated that Pell register as a sex offender, which the latter did in a courtroom bustling with reporters awaiting the sentencing of the most senior prelate of the Catholic Church to be ever found guilty of child sex crimes. Pell will have to serve at least three years and eight months in jail before he is eligible for parole.Also on rt.comVatican’s former 3rd most powerful man convicted of child sex abuseKidd said that Pell was well aware of what he was doing when he traumatized two choir boys, describing his behavior as "reasoned albeit perve…