AUSTRALIA
The New Daily
Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson should be sent to jail for covering up child sex abuse by a pedophile priest, a NSW court has been told.
Wilson, the most senior Catholic official in the world to be charged with the offence, was on Tuesday found guilty in Newcastle Local Court of failing to report to police the repeated abuse of two altar boys in the 1970s.
Magistrate Robert Stone accepted the two boys told Wilson in 1976 that priest James Fletcher had repeatedly abused them in the NSW Hunter region but the clergyman did nothing.
Wilson faces a maximum two years in prison.
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