ST. LOUIS (MO)
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
March 7, 2019
Today, a French Cardinal has been sentenced to a six-month suspended prison sentence for ignoring allegations of sexual abuse against a priest in his diocese.
We wish that Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the current Archbishop of Lyon, would have received a jail sentence, but are at least glad that he has been found guilty on charges that he refused to call police about abuse reports against Fr. Bernard Preynat. By ignoring allegations and refusing to inform police, Cardinal Barbarin put children in his community at risk.
We believe Cardinal Barbarin should have been given jail time because he endangered more young lives with this decision. That is how you stop cover ups – by harshly punishing those who engage in them.
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