The Vatican’s Cardinal George Pell Is Freed From Jail & His Child Sex Abuse Convictions Are Overturned
In Brief
- The Facts:Cardinal George Pell, a high ranking Vatican official who was convicted of child sexual abuse has been set free, and all charges have been dropped.
- Reflect On:How many people in powerful places are involved in such activity?
Cardinal George Pell, who a couple of
years ago became the highest ranking Vatican official to ever
be
convicted of child sexual abuse, has now been freed from jail after
Australia’s highest court overturned his conviction. The 78 year old
senior Catholic figure was facing a six-year jail sentence after a jury
found he was guilty of sexually abusing two boys in Melbourne in the
1990s. Seven judges ruled unanimously in Pell’s favour, stating that
the jury who found him guilty had “not properly considered all the
evidence presented at the trial.” Throughout the entire time, Pell
maintained his innocence from the moment he was charged in June of 2017,
and despite what’s happened since, regardless of whether he’s actually
innocent or not, his case has brought even more attention to the
on-going problem of pedophilia and sexual abuse in high level places,
like the Vatican.
Although the conviction against Pell has
been dropped, people will forever ponder if this man is actually guilty
of what he was accused of, and perhaps much more. Unfortunately, sexual
abuse within the Vatican, and other places of power has been an issue
for quite some time. It begs the question, how is this type of activity
able to persist and sustain itself? The answer may be simple, it could
be that those involved are simply some of the most powerful people in
the world. A retired police detective of 25 years, John Wedger, spent a
lot of his time investigating child abuse and how it operates
continually without being taken down. People are threatened, and in some
cases those whom one goes to in order to solve the problem, a ‘higher
up,’ is actually involved in it, and the investigation gets shut down
You can watch the full testimony of Wedger, here.
It’s disturbing to contemplate the idea that Cardinal George Pell is or would be involved in such things, after all, he himself established
The Diocesan Commission Into Sexual Abuse in 1996. If he is in fact
guilty, this leads to the point above made by Wedger, that the people
responsible for tackling this issue are actually involved and part of
the problem. That being said, Pell is innocent under the law.
It’s no secret that sexual abuse
scandals have plagued the Catholic Church for decades, and it seems
almost every single year. For example, prior to the accusations against
Pell, in 2015 a lawyer by the name of Ulrich Weber uncovered that for
the the thirty year reign of boys choir run by Benedicts XVI’s elder
brother, approximately 600 boys with a “high degree of plausibility”
were victims of sexual and physical abuse, or both. The report
identified 500 cases of physical abuse, and 67 cases of sexual abused
committed by a total of 49 people in a position of power within the
church. (source)
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Furthermore, it was only a few months
ago when Carlo Maria Vigano, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United
States and Secretary-General of the Governor of Vatican City, implicated
multiple church officials, including Pope Francis, in sexual abuse. You
can read more about that here.
With everything that’s emerged with regards to Jeffrey Epstein
and child sex trafficking over the past couple of years alone, it
really makes one wonder, Especially the fact that it seems Epstein was
involved in a blackmail operation and working for some powerful people.
A couple of years ago, Pope Francis compared child abuse within the Catholic Church to a “satanic mass.”
The Reverend Gabriele Amorth is another example, he was an Italian Roman Catholic Priest, and an exorcist of the Diocese of Rome,
which is an administrative branch of the Catholic Church of Rome. He
claimed to have performed tens of thousands of exorcisms over his half a
dozen plus decades as a Catholic Priest, and has mentioned a number of
times how Satanism is practiced within the Vatican. He has also claimed
that girls are commonly kidnapped by a gang of Vatican police and
foreign diplomats. He claimed that these girls are recruited for Vatican
parties, and crimes with a sexual motive.
Malachi Martin, an Irish Catholic priest
and writer on the Catholic Church who published many books exposing the
Vatican was originally ordained as a Jesuit priest, he eventually
became Professor of Palaeography at the Vatican’s Pontifical Biblical Institute and was one of many who exposed the practice of Satanism within the Vatican.
These are just a few examples of why so
many people believe something fishy is going on, regardless of whether
or not Pell is innocent or guilty. Is something beyond the abuse of
children happening here? Some sort of ‘ritual’ abuse? How has this been
ongoing for so long? How are these people and places still able to
operate with such power? It seems that they are quite untouchable.
If you’re curious and want
to go a little deeper into this kind of thing, beyond the Vatican and
into high ranking politicians, possible Royal Family pedophilia and
more, you can refer to this article as it goes into much more detail and provides more information.
Our Interview With A Survivor of Elite Level Child Sex Trafficking
Anneke Lucas is an author, speaker, advocate for child sex trafficking victims, founder of the non-profit organization Liberation Prison Yoga, and creator of the Unconditional Model.
Her work is based off her
30-year journey to restore her mental and physical wellbeing after
surviving some of the worst atrocities known to humankind before the age
of 12. Sold as a young child into a murderous pedophile network by her
family, she was rescued after nearly six years of abuse and torture.
We recently conducted an
interview with her. Below is a clip from the four part series, as it was
a very long and detailed interview. You can access the full interview
and start your free trial HERE on CETV,
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to continue to do our work and get the word out about various issues and
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