Vatican Cardinal Defends Raping Little Boys: ‘It Was Just Vanilla Sex’

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Cardinal George Pell, found guilty of raping 13-year-old boys while he was an Archbishop, has described his sexual abuse of children as "plain vanilla sex."

Cardinal George Pell, found guilty of raping 13-year-old boys while he was an Archbishop, has described his sexual abuse of children as “plain vanilla sex.

Despite acknowledging the 13-year-old boys did not “volunteer” to have sex, nor were they “actively participating,” Cardinal Pell’s defense appealed for a lenient sentence by arguing that an Archbishop having sex with 13-year-old boys, against their will, is “on the low end of offending.

Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sexual abuse, was found guilty in December of sexually penetrating one choirboy and molesting another while he was Archbishop of Melbourne, but the verdict was not made public until yesterday.

But Robert Richter, one of Pell’s defense lawyers, drew gasps of disbelief from the court room when he attempted to convince the judge that his client’s crimes were “on the low end of offending”, describing them as “no more than a plain vanilla sexual penetration case where a child is not volunteering or actively participating”.

However Cardinal Pell’s shocking defense was immediately shut down by chief judge Peter Kidd, who described Pell’s sex crimes as “brutal” and made it clear that he views the former Vatican treasurer as a brazen pedophile.

At the moment, I see this as callous, brazen offending. Blatant,” Judge Kidd said. “There was an element of brutality to this assault.”

Cardinal Pell’s defense also tried to claim that an incident in which Pell grabbed one of the boys by the genitals in an attack that lasted seconds was “fleeting” and therefore not worthy of a prison sentence.




Chrissie Foster, the mother of two girls abused by a Catholic priest, was in court when Pell’s defense lawyer made the comments and she called the remarks “outrageous“.

How can they say that? These are children, they were children, two of my children were treated to such rape,” Ms Foster said, speaking outside court.

Cardinal George Pell’s defense lawyer, Robert Richter, outside the court room on Tuesday after describing child rape as “vanilla sex”

The details of the high-profile child sex case emerged this week after a court order banning reporting of the trial was lifted.

During the trial, one victim described how the former Archbishop sexually assaulted him and other boys, exposing his genitals to them, masturbating in front of them, and forcing them to perform oral sex on him.

Each of the five offences for which the 77-year-old was found guilty carries a maximum 10 years imprisonment. The judge outlined they were serious charges and Pell is expected to receive a lengthy prison sentence.

Pell was back in court on Wednesday for his sentence plea hearing, during which his defense lawyer attempted to describe his child sex crimes as “vanilla sex”. His bail was revoked and he was taken to prison ahead of his final sentence being handed down on 13 March.

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17 Comments

  1. These evil ppl are sooooo depraved that they truly believe it’s nothing to rape children!!!! The only cure for pedophilia is death and that’s exactly what should be done to all of the guilty. Dear God, protect and save our children; expose all the evil ones and then bring your swift justice and wrath upon their heads.

  2. Absolutely sickening that this man arrogantly thinks sexually molesting boys is ok. This man and all the others in the catholic church who have or are molesting children should have their penis cut off. This is the ONLY ‘cure’ for pedophiles.

  3. So the Vatican threw Pell under the bus….hahahaha not so smart no is he….. he will spend his time in solitary because if he goes into general population in Jail,,,the crims will slaughter him in a day … satan always does that to people after he has used them….. All I can say is.. Praise God….

      • I doubt praying for him will change his ultimate outcome. He did his deal with satan a long long time ago. His fate is sealed.

    • All I can say is…where was God when the rapes occurred? The All Knowing, All Seeing God, Creator of All, sits back and watches his creations destroy young lives, abort innocent fetuses, permits serial killers to run rampant across the planet and you want to ‘Praise God’? Why?

      • You can’t blame God for what people choose to do. If we as a society turned to him with our whole hearts none of this would be happening, or at least it would be rare and swiftly punished. The more we turn away the worse it is getting, so that’s obviously not the answer. He’s not going to take away free will though – he created humans not robots. It IS all going to be stopped at some point soon as evil reaches an all time high. This has all been predicted and laid out ahead of time btw – there is a plan.

      • Buy a Bible and start reading it. All will be revealed to you, in your blinded state it is all too much for you to comprehend. The Bible will unblind your tired blind eyes, and will set you free. Then your cry will become Come soon Lord Jesus.

  4. RAPE IS NEVER SEX, IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT POWER. It is what it is – RAPE, the taking of someone by force. It is NEVER vanilla sex. this guy worked as a priest – and with children????? I think I hate the Catholic Church, what are they doing to our children? And the have NO remorse.

  5. There should not even be a discussion!! This is evil on a level that needs to be addressed ASAP!!! Arrest these sick people! There is a Revolution coming for the sick, lying liberal democrat people behind this plan to destroy our country!! Get ready. This is not a joke. We as Americans have to stop this BS!!!

  6. A global Bastille day is needed to rid the planet of all the elites. Automatic guillotines running 24/7.

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