GEORGE Pell has been sentenced to six years in prison for the sexual abuse of two boys committed in 1996 and 1997.
He will be eligible for parole in three years and eight months.
The sentence was handed down in the Victorian County Court by Chief Judge Peter Kidd.
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READ NOWJudge Kidd spoke for more than an hour, asking Pell to stand just after 8am local time to receive his sentence.
Pell, who was until late-February the Vatican’s treasurer, is the highest-ranking Catholic to be convicted of child sexual abuse.