Fpr anybody interested in George Pell's history, this is a detailed listing with links:
The Legal Trials of George Pell – Timeline
This image in particular makes me feel emotionally vomitous...
This image shows Pell appearing at paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale's trial as his "clergy support" person.
Ridsdale and Pell lived together in the same house in Ballarat, but Pell has always denied knowing of Ridsdale's
multiple sexual assaults. My guess is that Pell supported Ridsdale for two reasons:
1) To minimise and/or influence what Ridsdale said about Pell himself—which could incriminate him,
2) To ensure that Ridsadale toed the Catholic church's long-term line of defence—even at the risk of perjuring himself.
This diagram represents the legal hierarchy here in Victoria. Pell's case was first held in the County Court of Victoria,
where a judge and a 12-person jury found Pell to be guilty as charged. He them appealed to the Supreme Court of
Victoria, which also found him guilty as determined by the lower court. Finally, and successfully, he appealed to the
High Court of Australia at which three out of 3 judges acquitted him of all charges.
As Marcellus said: "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark" in this case.