{"id":139200,"date":"2020-04-07T02:41:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T00:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/07\/george-pell-australian-cardinal-to-be-released-from-jail-after-high-court-quashes-child-sex-abuse-conviction\/"},"modified":"2020-04-07T02:41:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T00:41:17","slug":"george-pell-australian-cardinal-to-be-released-from-jail-after-high-court-quashes-child-sex-abuse-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=139200","title":{"rendered":"George Pell: Australian cardinal to be released from jail after high court quashes child sex abuse conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pell will be freed immediately after the high court\u2019s decision that his appeal should be upheld, as there was \u2018a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted\u2019George Pell conviction quashed &#8211; follow live updatesThe trials of George Pell &#8211; timelineCardinal George Pell, the former financial controller of the Vatican and the most senior Catholic in the world to have been found guilty of historical child sexual abuse, will be freed from prison and have his convictions overturned following a two-year legal battle.The bench of the high court in Brisbane on Tuesday granted leave for Pell to appeal, ordering his immediate release and quashing the conviction. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/apr\/07\/cardinal-george-pell-conviction-quashed-australia-high-court-freed-jail-appeal-upheld\" target=\"_blank\">George Pell: Australian cardinal to be released from jail after high court quashes child sex abuse conviction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pell will be freed immediately after the high court\u2019s decision that his appeal should be upheld, as there was \u2018a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted\u2019George Pell conviction quashed &#8211; follow live updatesThe trials of George Pell &#8211; timelineCardinal George Pell, the former financial controller of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}