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Cardinal George Pell has child sex abuse convictions upheld by Australian court

Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic ever to be found guilty of child sex abuse, has had his convictions upheld by an Australian court.

Pope Francis' former finance minister was guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne's St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1996 and 1997 in December.

At the time, Pell had just become archbishop of Australia's second largest city and had set up a world-first compensation arrangement for victims of clergy sexual abuse.

Now the Victoria state Court of Appeal has upheld the unanimous verdicts the jury gave last year by a 2-1 majority ruling.

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