Australian court overturns Catholic cardinal's child sex conviction

A former Vatican treasurer who was serving six years in jail for child sex crimes is set to walk free after Australia's highest court unanimously overturned his conviction on Tuesday.In December 2018, Cardinal George Pell was found guilty of five counts of sexual abuse -- one count of sexual penetration of a child under 16 and four counts of committing an indecent act with a child -- against two choirboys in the mid-1990s, while he served as Archbishop of Melbourne.At the time of his conviction, he was the world's most senior Catholic figure to be found guilty of child sexual abuse.In the v…READ FULL ARTICLE