Insults have been hurled at Cardinal George Pell by members of the public as he arrived for a pre-sentencing hearing at a Melbourne court today.
It was yesterday revealed that Pell had been convicted of abusing two choir boys in Melbourne's cathedral in 1996.
He was convicted last year, but suppression orders in place did not allows the reporting of the conviction until yesterday.
Pell was greeted by dozens of angry Melbournians as he arrived at County Court today, many of whom verbally abused him.
Pell is the most senior Catholic cleric ever to be convicted of child sex abuse.
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The Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe journalist spoke told TVNZ1’s Breakfast the church is “incapable of policing itself”. (Source: Other)
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