{"id":83989,"date":"2019-03-13T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/13\/george-pell-sentenced-to-six-years-in-prison-for-child-sexual-assault-live\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T01:57:07","slug":"george-pell-sentenced-to-six-years-in-prison-for-child-sexual-assault-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=83989","title":{"rendered":"George Pell sentenced to six years in prison for child sexual assault \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow live updates and reaction as the most senior Catholic in Australia is sentenced to six years\u2019 jail, with a non-parole period of three years and eight monthsPell\u2019s conviction: the questions that remainThe harrowing story of Pell\u2019s victimsThe Reckoning podcast: David Marr on the rise of George Pell 1.57am GMT With that, we will leave you. Thank you for joining us today. And a big thanks to my colleague Melissa Davey, who brought you the news from the courts precinct in Melbourne\u2019s CBD.The key takeaway is that Cardinal George Pell, once the third most powerful Catholic in the world, will spend at least three years and eight months in prison. He faces a maximum sentence of six years for sexually assaulting two boys in the 1990s. Blue Knot Foundation \u2013 1300 657 380 Support for survivors of childhood trauma. 1.50am GMT Chrissie Foster, whose two daughters were raped by Father Kevin O\u2019Donnell, also reflected on today\u2019s events. She said of the fact Pell will spend a minimum of three years and eight months behind bars: \u201cI think it\u2019s reasonable and it\u2019s far better than a suspended sentence for a first offence.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2019\/mar\/13\/cardinal-george-pell-sentenced-child-sexual-assault-live\" target=\"_blank\">George Pell sentenced to six years in prison for child sexual assault \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow live updates and reaction as the most senior Catholic in Australia is sentenced to six years\u2019 jail, with a non-parole period of three years and eight monthsPell\u2019s conviction: the questions that remainThe harrowing story of Pell\u2019s victimsThe Reckoning podcast: David Marr on the rise of George Pell 1.57am GMT [&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-83989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83989","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=83989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}