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Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest for concealing allegations of abuse against another religious in the 1970s, he said officially this Tuesday, July 3 in Canberra. Wilson, the current archbishop of Adelaide, had been convicted in May and was to receive up to two years in prison.

During the trial, the archbishop said he did not remember the conversation in which apparently one of the four abused children had told him about the situation. Extensive research revealed last year that tens of thousands of children in the country have been sexually abused, especially in religious facilities and centers.

Wilson is the world's highest Catholic Church, found guilty of concealment in a case of sexual abuse of minors. Newcastle Judge Robert Stone also ordered that he serve at least six months before he can apply for parole. However, the prelate will not have to serve his sentence immediately, because Stone will have to determine, on August 14, if the 67-year-old cleric is fit to be placed under house arrest.

The court found him guilty informing the police of repeated abuses received by two altar boys from pedophile priest James Fletcher (from the Hunter Valley area, north of Sydney) during the 1970s Wilson's maximum sentence was two years. prison

LGC (dpa / AP)

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