AUSTRALIA
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Mark Russell
Australian Associated Press
APRIL 13, 2018
Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson has been accused of acting like a “cat on a hot tin roof” when trying to absolve himself of guilt over claims he covered up child sex abuse by a pedophile priest.
Prosecutor Gareth Harrison told Newcastle Local Court that Wilson was a “consummate Catholic politician” who had ducked and weaved when trying not to incriminate himself.
“The accused (Wilson) was part of an entrenched, toxic culture of covering things up,” Mr Harrison said during his closing address on Friday.
“Victims come second.”
The prosecutor said Wilson, the most senior Catholic official in the world to be charged with concealing abuse, had maintained a “cover-up attitude” since 1976 when he was an assistant priest in the NSW Hunter region.
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