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Topic History of: he denied it happened so it must have
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hedda wrote:
Reading historian Keith Windshuttle's The Persecution of George Pell is both fascinating and quite depressing.
Yet this was picked up by many including the media and especially the trial judge who said that the denial "could have been the "victim" was too ashamed to admit it."
It is astonishing that a trial judge could speculate in this manner; showing themselves nakedly as an arm of the prosecution. What happened to the wisdom of Soloman eh...? |
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hedda |
Reading historian Keith Windshuttle's The Persecution of George Pell is both fascinating and quite depressing.
The battles between two sectors of the Law- legal minds who were determined to see Pell jailed no matter what the truth, and the others who were determined that justice prevailed.
Of course the defense had to go right up to the High Court to get vindication.
Pell was convicted by the media who did the bidding of those who pursued him and the truth became so muddled over the trials the most glaringly obvious matters were overlooked.
And the cops come out badly as well.
Some things stand out: how the police gave evidence, saying at times that the 2 boys (a complete fabrication as there was only one) had described exactly and accurately the room in which "they" were abused in 1996..the complete layout, where cubboards were, which side of the wall, where the sink and the wine was, where the window was and so on.
Yet in the trial the jury completely ignored the fact- as did the judge who dismissed it - evidence given by a builder, by numerous people and even ignored photos shown- that the accuser was describing a room that was created in 2004 during renovations.
The fact that the "second accuser" who died from a heroin overdose never went to police, never complained he'd been abused and when there was controversy in the media about abuse, replied to his mother' s inquiry if anything had happened him- it hadn't.
Yet this was picked up by many including the media and especially the trial judge who said that the denial "could have been the "victim" was too ashamed to admit it."
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