Cardinal George Pell has revealed humiliating prison strip searches were the worst part about being in jail before his child sex abuse convictions were quashed.
Australia s highest-ranking Catholic official was wrongly convicted in December 2018 of five counts of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys at Melbourne s St Patrick s Cathedral in 1996.
He spent 405 days behind bars before his six-year jail sentence was overturned in a final appeal to the High Court in April 2020.
Pell, 79, said there were times during his undignified stint behind bars when he thought he would have to wait until the Christian afterlife to be vindicated.
Cardinal George Pell presides over the mass at Barangaroo, Sydney for the opening of World Youth Day on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. He has told a radio interview (pictured) how the humiliation of prison strip searches was the worst part about being in jail
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The Age to publish early articles about George Pellâs sex abuse conviction was, lawyers for the media argue, made to inform readers why the case could not be reported, although the call âwas ultimately wrongâ.
Fourteen news outlets have pleaded guilty to a combined 21 charges of contempt of court for breaching a suppression order with reports published or broadcast in December 2018, in the days after Cardinal Pell was found guilty.
Cardinal George Pell.
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The cardinal last year had his convictions quashed and was released from prison following a successful appeal to the High Court.