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Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson, who covered cases of pedophilia in the Church and one of the highest clerics of the Catholic hierarchy involved in this type of scandal, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months imprisonment
. Wilson, 67, Archbishop of Adelaide, was convicted of concealing the abuses committed in the 1970s by Father Jim Fletcher in the Hunter region of New South Wales by failing to disclose his denunciations against religious.
During the trial, there was no question that Fletcher, who had pbaded away, badually abused Peter Creigh's altar boy, but rather the fact that Wilson, then a young priest, had nothing done about it when he was informed. The archbishop denied all the charges, and his lawyers claimed that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease to avoid the lawsuit.
The Newcastle court sentenced Wilson to 12 months in jail, with no possibility of advancing punishment until six months, but Judge Robert Stone suspended his application until August 14 to badess the possibility of detention in the residence of certain family members. of the religious.
Wilson was proclaimed in New South Wales before being appointed bishop of Wollongong in 1996. Five years later, he was appointed archbishop.
After being convicted, Wilson left the church but held the title.
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