The Most Senior Catholic Ever Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse, Australian Cardinal George Pell, Jailed for 6 years

Chief Judge Peter Kidd has sentenced Australian Cardinal George Pell to six years in prison, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months, for the sexual abuse of two boys at St Patrick’s Cathedral in the 1990s.

George Pell, 77, is the most high-profile Vatican official yet to be convicted of child sex abuse.

The Australian Cardinal was found guilty of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys in the late 1990s when he was Archbishop of Melbourne and publicly leading the Australian Catholic Church's response to the decades-long child abuse scandal.