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    Australia's High Court Overturns Cardinal Pell's Child Sexual Abuse Conviction

    The former Vatican treasurer, who had been the highest-ranking Roman Catholic cleric ever found guilty of sexual abuse, was ordered released from prison, where he was serving a six-year sentence.
    by Barbara Campbell Apr 06, 2020 2 minutes
    Cardinal George Pell makes his way through members of the media outside the court in Melbourne in February 2019. Australia's High Court has overturned his conviction for child sexual abuse.

    Updated at 1:15 a.m. ET Tuesday

    Australia's High Court has found reasonable doubt that Cardinal George Pell sexually assaulted two boys in the 1990s and has overturned his conviction.

    The court acquitted the former Vatican treasurer of the charges, and no retrial will be

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