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In an appeal against Cardinal Pell's conviction, his QC has argued that "This is no more than a plain, vanilla sexual penetration case where a child is not volunteering or actively participating" and at the low end of the scale.
The rape of a child, then. No more than that.
Defending the unpopular in court is an important duty. Hard to see how it justifies saying something as patently ridiculous and insensitive, although I suppose some of those phrases have legal meaning. Still, wtaf.