Committal hearing dismisses main charges against Cardinal Pell*

After a four-week hearing, Melbourne Magistrate Belinda Wallington dismissed the most serious charges brought by police against Cardinal George Pell, and ordered that lesser charges be heard in the Victorian County Court at some time in the near future.
Cardinal Pell has repeatedly and firmly denied the allegations made against him.


Cardinal George Pell

The prosecution of Cardinal Pell was brought by the police, not by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), w…

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