Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson is reported to be the most senior Catholic in the world to be charged and convicted with not disclosing information to the police about child sex abuse.
He did not witness or participate in the alleged abuse. It appears that he was simply told by the victim in 1976 what is alleged to have happened in 1971, and was charged 39 years later with not going to the police with what he had been told.
The prosecutor, in calling for a jail s…
