Pell, now 77 but 55 at the time, had just been named the most senior Catholic in Australia's second-largest city, Melbourne. The jury also found Pell guilty of indecently assaulting one of the boys in a corridor more than a month later. The now 34-year-old survivor told the court that Pell orally raped him, then crouched and fondled the complainant's genitals while masturbating. I didn't want to rock the boat with my family, my schooling, my life," the complainant told the jurors. "The allegations involve vile and disgusting conduct contrary to everything I hold dear and contrary to the explicit teachings of the church which I have spent my life representing," Pell told police.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 26, 2019 00:33 UTC