“1 Cardinal George Pell, on 11 December 2018 you were convicted by a jury
of five charges of sexual offending by you against two young boys in 1996 and
1997 in St Patrick’s Cathedral, East Melbourne. You were convicted of one
offence of Sexual Penetration of a Child under 16 years and four offences of
committing an Indecent Act with or in the presence of a Child under 16 years………
Sentence
219 Cardinal Pell, will you please stand.
220 All things considered, I impose the following sentences upon you…..
Total effective sentence
226 I direct that the sentence of 4 years imposed on charge 2 is the
base sentence.
227 I further direct that 12 months of the sentence imposed on charge 1,
4 months of the sentence imposed on charge 3, 2 months of the sentence imposed
on charge 4 and 6 months of the sentence imposed on charge 5 are to be served
cumulatively upon charge 2 and upon each other.
228 This means that I sentence you to a total effective sentence of 6
years’ imprisonment.
Non-parole period
229 I set a non-parole period of 3 years and 8 months. That means you
will become eligible to apply for parole after serving this non-parole period.
Your release on parole will be a matter for the Parole Board.
Pre-sentence detention
230 I declare that the 14 days’ imprisonment you have already served in
pre-sentence detention, is reckoned as time already served against the sentence
I have just imposed.”
[County
Court Victoria, [2019] VCC 260, DPP
v George Pell (Sentence), excerpts]
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