Abuse survivors react to Archbishop Wilson’s sentence

NEWCASTLE (AUSTRALIA)
ABC via The Guardian

July 3, 2018

[A brief video showing clips from two survivors’ statements.]

Peter Gogarty and Daniel Feenan speak outside Newcastle local court after Philip Wilson was sentenced to 12 months’ detention for concealing child sexual abuse. The Adelaide archbishop is the most senior Catholic official in the world to be convicted over his failure to report to police the abuse of two altar boys by a paedophile priest in the 1970s. He is likely to be spared time in prison.

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