Posted on Dec 6, 2018
Ex-archbishop's cover-up conviction quashed
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A former Catholic archbishop in Australia has had his conviction for concealing child sexual abuse quashed.
A judge in New South Wales said there were reasonable doubts about Philip Wilson's conviction.
Mr Wilson, 68, had become the world's most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of covering up sexual abuse when his trial ended in May.
But he consistently denied knowing that paedophile priest James Patrick Fletcher had abused boys in the 1970s.
A judge in New South Wales said there were reasonable doubts about Philip Wilson's conviction.
Mr Wilson, 68, had become the world's most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of covering up sexual abuse when his trial ended in May.
But he consistently denied knowing that paedophile priest James Patrick Fletcher had abused boys in the 1970s.
Ex-archbishop's cover-up conviction quashed
Posted from bbc.com
Australia
Sexual Assault
Religion
Christianity
Crime
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This is an unfortunate trend around the world today. Religious leaders interests are to protect the business of the institution they belong to rather than to stand for those abused by its members. After all, what’s a large group of old men to do when their financial source is in jeopardy, and you have no other skills than to lecture others (a polite way of saying - running your mouth)?
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