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He is the highest Catholic prelate in the world to have received such a sentence. The crimes that Bishop Wilson was aware of and that he would not report to the police would have occurred in the 1970s in the Hinger area by priest Jim Fletcher, serial mugger, who died in prison at age 65, a year after conviction for pedophilia for abusing a 13 year old girl between 1989 and 1991.
Fletcher also reportedly raped 4 altar boys. Wilson does not go immediately to prison. The court will decide on Aug. 14 if it can get a domiciliation. He could stay with his sister in Newcastle
Pope Francis had appointed apostolic administrator at the beginning of June as apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Adelaide, Bishop Gregory O. Kelly, bishop of Port Pirie.
Wilson had always denied the charges and his legal staff made four attempts for the case to go wrong, claiming that Wilson's Alzheimer's diagnosis should have been excluded from the trial – even though this did not prevent him from maintaining his position in the Church.
The Australian Episcopal Conference he did not want to insist, only writing a short note in which he said that "the protection of children and vulnerable adults is of paramount importance to the Church and its members. ministries. "
Bergoglio recently witnessed his wholesale resignation from the Chilean Episcopal Conference, convened at the Vatican after finding decades of systematic coverage of bishops against priests who abused children. And he's waiting to hear the verdict of the lawsuit, again in Australia, to one of his Loyalists, George Pell. The cardinal is at the top of the Vatican, as prefect of the secretariat of the Economy and member of the C9. The council of nine cardinals who collaborate with the Pope in the reform of the Curia, among others, also includes Cardinal Francisco Javier Errßzuriz Ossa, Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago, Chile, at the center of the abuses of Fernando Karadima.
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