SURRY HILLS (AUSTRALIA)
news.com.au
May 23, 2018
By Ally Foster
South Australia’s highest ranking Catholic Church official, Philip Wilson, will stand down from his duties after being convicted of covering up sexual abuse.THE highest ranking official in South Australia’s Catholic Church will stand aside from his duties after being found guilty of landmark charges that he covered up a priest’s sexual abuse of altar boys.
The Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Edward Wilson, 67, was convicted yesterday in a Newcastle Local Court for the cover up of child sex abuse during the 1970s in NSW Hunter region.
Magistrate Robert Stone handed down the verdict following a magistrate-only trial, finding him guilty of concealing a serious indictable offence of another person.
In a statement issued by the Catholic Church on Wednesday, Wilson said it was appropriate for him to stand aside in light of Magistrate Stone’s findings against him.
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