A City Of Refuge

GUILTY VERDICT FOR ARCHBISHOP OF
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
            PHILIP WILSON.

Walter "Robbie" Robinson was not in Newcastle on Tuesday to hear the gasps when Magistrate Robert Stone delivered his decision.

But he knew how significant the verdict was.
When Philip Wilson, the Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, was found guilty of covering up child sexual abuse, reverberations from the landmark ruling made it all the way to Boston.
Although Professor Robinson — a Pulitzer Prize-winner and veteran newspaperman — deflects much of the credit, he began writing this story 16 years ago.
Professor Robinson ran Boston Globe's "Spotlight Team" in the early 2000s and its investigation into child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.
Their ground-breaking reporting was turned into the 2015 feature film Spotlight, which won an Academy Award for best picture that year.
The 72-year-old remains the paper's editor-at-large and, after making a career out of putting the church under a microscope, followed yesterday's decision from the other side of the world.
"Wilson is a peculiar case because it's one of the very few instances in which the person in charge who covered up the abuse and enabled the abuse to continue has actually been held accountable," he told the ABC.

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