(Reuters) - Ex-Vatican Treasurer George Pell, 78, was released from jail on Tuesday after Australia's highest court acquitted him of charges of sexually assaulting two teenaged choirboys in the 1990s.
The decision by the High Court of Australia to overturn Pell's conviction by a lower court ends the prosecution of Australia's most senior Catholic official.
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