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AUSTRALIAN ARCHBISHOP CLEARED OF CHILD SEX ABUSE COVER-UP
Sex Offenders and Others In Positions of Trust, Shame On You, Unbelievable, International, Church.
December 6, 2018
CBS News
NEWCASTLE, Australia — An Australian appeal court on Thursday overturned a conviction against the most senior Roman Catholic cleric ever found guilty of covering up child sex abuse. New South Wales state District Court Judge Roy Ellis upheld former Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson’s appeal against his May conviction in a lower court for concealing the sexual abuse of two altar boys by a pedophile priest in the 1970s. Ellis found there was reasonable doubt that the 68-year-old cleric