Australia Cardinal freed after child sexual abuse convictions quashed

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CANBERRA: Cardinal George Pell was freed from prison on Tuesday after the High Court of Australia overturned his convictions for the sexual abuse of two boys in the 1990s. The judges considered that there was "a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted because the evidence did not establish guilt to the requisite standard of proof", according to the ruling obtained by Efe news. It was Pell's last legal avenue to have his convictions overturned and he said he held no...

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