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Australian Cardinal George Pell, sentenced to six years in jail for sexually abusing two children over twenty years ago, compared the suffering he suffered to Jesus Christ.

In an alleged letter signed by the religious and published last night on social networks by a support group, Pell, who was number 3 of the Vatican, says that "faith" is the source of his strength and "suffering" gives him " sense and direction ".

In a two-page letter, dated August 1 from the Melbourne prison where he is confined, he thanks the support to the people who believe in him and tells them that he hopes to hear the appeal against the conviction, whose appeal was seen in June for sentence.

A spokeswoman for the Australian Department of Justice told The Sydney Morning Herald that they are investigating whether the prelate violated prison rules after the letter was released by social networks.

Pell was convicted last March, after a jury determined his guilt in five counts of pedophilia, including one of oral penetration, for the sexual abuses committed to two choir children at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, between 1996 and 1997.

The decision, which was based mainly on the testimony of the victim who is still alive, was reached unanimously in a second trial, after a previous jury did not reach an agreement on the process, which involves another victim who never denounced the facts and died of a drug overdose in 2014.

Pell's defense has presented three arguments in his appeal , and the main one of which is that the jury could not issue the guilty verdict "beyond any reasonable doubt" and the evidence presented during the trial shows that the cardinal could not Having committed the aggressions.

The other two arguments, of a more technical nature, denounce that the defense was refused to submit a 19-minute animated video, which tried to reconstruct the facts and allegedly showed that Pell could not have committed the abuses, and the possible error that he did not The defendant will be given the opportunity to plead guilty or innocent in front of the jury.

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