20 June 2018 10:05 am
Canberra (dpa),Jun 19 2018 - An Australian archbishop, the most senior Catholic official in the world to be convicted of concealing child sexual abuse will be sentenced in July, after a magistrate reserved his decision at a hearing on Tuesday. Philip Wilson, 67, the Archbishop of Adelaide, South Australia, was found guilty last month of concealing the crimes of a paedophile priest in the 1970s in regional New South Wales.
Wilson has been diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer’s. His legal team argued that he would not be able to survive prison given his frail health condition, including suffering from diabetes, hypertension, and depression, and it “may even threaten his survival.”