Guys I don't want to go off topic but as usual, I've been following this one and the usual suspects come out spouting words of wisdom that can only be believed by them.
The argument that a jury of 12 convicted him, is little to no comfort to us, as it has already been said, judging by the details of the trial, this has been one heck of a judicial stuff-up.
And as has been mentioned, NO I do not have faith in the people to make the right decision.
Why should anyone?
What makes the 'people' so smart as to have the intellect to make a judgement call based on reason and common sense, when I have observed all my life, a clear lack of these elements in Australia.
I don't particularly care for what he is being charged with, but so as to put balance back in the discussion, I believe there have been other religious or general institutions that have been found guilty of the same thing as Pell was charged with.
Now it will come as no surprise to my detractors, but I don't particularly care about the so called victim.
Big deal, what a wimp, he should be grateful, he grew up a little more because of such incidents.
He got his 'rocks off', so what.
Imagine for a moment if he/they had been forced to have sex with a nun?
You do-goody types have no idea, we would wearing a beaming smile for days.
The moral of these stories is GROW UP!
We are facilitating a world of pansies.
If what I have read about the evidence, or lack of it, and the way the trial was conducted, all I have come away with, is questions.
And as such, I begin to explore the world of conspiracy's.
As much as some people live in fairy land, bad things are the norm out there.
Imagine if such people were on this jury?
How did it go from 10/2 to acquit, to guilty?
Judging by previous jury verdicts, I thought this one was conspicuously quick.

//and that's all that they are, allegations.//

Not so Issy, the 1997 allegation, has gone from being an allegation to a proven fact in a properly constituted court of law.

//Big deal, what a wimp, he (the victim) should be grateful, he (the victim) grew up a little more because of such incidents. He (Pell) got his 'rocks off', so what.//

What a perverted mind we have here, another PAEDOPHILE APOLOGIST.

You would never want your son near this sort of person, he might want to grow them up in his own peculiar way!

Dear Paul,

There's no point in arguing with reprobates.

Watch "Four Corners" tonight on Pell.
It will be a real eye-opener.

“ … usual suspects come out spouting words of wisdom that can only be believed by them”.

They live in an echo chamber. Some of them actually get to sit on juries: now there's a really scary thought! Just imagine being up before the beak, especially if you are a Christian or worse, a Catholic, knowing that there could be a Foxy or a Paul on the jury, all fired up by Four Corners or Q&A, to put you away. George Pell is the victim of people just like our two leading SJWs.

The termagant is looking forward to Four Corners tonight so that she get even more second-hand bile to belt out as soon as it's finished, and on and on and ….. it will go for the rest of the week. Her bigotry is beautifully expressed in her assuredness that the program will be a “real eye opener”. Has she read the script? Even if it doesn't live up to her bloodthirsty expectations, she will have her own interpretation of it.

The 'Dear Pauls’ and 'Dear Foxys’ will fill the ether with hatred. My advice is to ignore them; they will eventually exhaust themselves.

If ever there was a good case for judge-only trials by choice, this sorry business is it.

Dear ALTRAV,

You write;

“Big deal, what a wimp, he should be grateful, he grew up a little more because of such incidents. He got his 'rocks off', so what” .... “ You do-goody types have no idea, we would wearing a beaming smile for days.”

I had no idea you were a supporter of the Australian Man/Boy Love Association (AMBLA). You are using similar arguments to them, have about the same amount of front, and have about as much regard for the victims as they do. I think you might be reading from one of their cue cards.

Look this might be a norm in your culture but it isn't here, rather we rightly regard it as highly offensive.