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The Persecution of George Pell

Keith Windschuttle

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Description:This book is the story of how the highest levels of the police, judiciary and politics in Australia, plus victim lobby groups, compensation lawyers, and journalists for major news media, found common cause to persecute, convict and jail an innocent man.They had been persuaded by fanciful accusations that, twenty years earlier, George Cardinal Pell of the Catholic Church had sexually abused two 13-year-old choirboys in the priests' sacristy of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, on a Sunday morning after Mass.The campaign again Pell aimed not only at personally destroying one of Australia's most influential religious leaders, but of trashing the reputation of his Church as well. To get their man, lawyers, judges and a Royal Commission had to reverse long-standing legal principles including the presumption of innocence, guilt beyond reasonable doubt, and the onus of proof being on the prosecution. Many insisted that a claim of child sexual abuse must always be believed. Had it succeeded, the campaign would have set damaging precedents for the rule of law in Australia. Pell spent 400 days in prison before a unanimous judgement of the High Court acquitted him, and set him free.The persecution of George Pell is a story not only of a serious injustice heaped on one individual but also the damage that can be done to a civilised society by ideologues within our major institutions when they are convinced of their own virtue and determined to get their own way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Persecution of George Pell. To get started finding The Persecution of George Pell, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 408

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Quadrant Books

Release: 2020

ISBN: 0648996115

Description: This book is the story of how the highest levels of the police, judiciary and politics in Australia, plus victim lobby groups, compensation lawyers, and journalists for major news media, found common cause to persecute, convict and jail an innocent man.They had been persuaded by fanciful accusations that, twenty years earlier, George Cardinal Pell of the Catholic Church had sexually abused two 13-year-old choirboys in the priests' sacristy of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, on a Sunday morning after Mass.The campaign again Pell aimed not only at personally destroying one of Australia's most influential religious leaders, but of trashing the reputation of his Church as well. To get their man, lawyers, judges and a Royal Commission had to reverse long-standing legal principles including the presumption of innocence, guilt beyond reasonable doubt, and the onus of proof being on the prosecution. Many insisted that a claim of child sexual abuse must always be believed. Had it succeeded, the campaign would have set damaging precedents for the rule of law in Australia. Pell spent 400 days in prison before a unanimous judgement of the High Court acquitted him, and set him free.The persecution of George Pell is a story not only of a serious injustice heaped on one individual but also the damage that can be done to a civilised society by ideologues within our major institutions when they are convinced of their own virtue and determined to get their own way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Persecution of George Pell. To get started finding The Persecution of George Pell, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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