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February 14, 20205.59 The Australian High Court will discuss Cardinal George Pell's appeal against his convictions for child sexual abuse on March 11 and 12. The prelate, 78, is serving a 6-year sentence for sexually assaulting 2 choristers in a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s. It is his last chance to get out of prison. A former Vatican treasurer, he was found guilty of abusing 5 children when he was archbishop of Melbourne. Pell has already lost a first appeal before the Victoria Court of Appeal,