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Australian Archbishop Found Guilty In Cover-Up Of Child Sex Abuse

Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson faces up to two years in prison for concealing abuse after two altar boys approached him in the 1970s with allegations against a fellow priest.
St. Peters Cathedral, North Adelaide, South Australia, SA, Australia. Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson was found guilty on Tuesday of covering up child sex abuse in the 1970s.

Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson has been found guilty of concealing child sex abuse by a fellow priest that he first learned of in the 1970s.

Wilson, 67, the senior-most Catholic cleric ever to be charged with concealing abuse, has been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's disease. He denied under oath last month that two former altar boys told him of

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