Australian cardinal taken in to custody as judge considers sentence for sexual assault conviction
By A. Odysseus Patrick February 27 at 7:11 AM SYDNEY — Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic prelate convicted of sexual assault, was taken into custody Wednesday to await sentencing by an Australian judge. At the conclusion of hearing in the city of Melbourne to consider evidence about the appropriate sentence for the fallen cardinal, Judge Peter Kidd ordered Pell to be held in jail pending his decision.
Pell’s lawyer, Robert Richter, asked for a lighter sentence because the conviction was for “a plain-vanilla sexual penetration case where the child is not actively participating.” “There was an element of brutality to this assault,” the judge said. “It was an attack. It spoke to his state of mind that he thought he could do this and get away with it.” Kidd conceded, however, that Pell’s prospects for rehabilitation are good and that he is unlikely to commit more crimes.
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