Ex-Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson has conviction quashed | SBS News: A NSW judge has quashed former Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson's conviction for covering up child sex abuse by a paedophile priest in the Hunter region...
How appalling! I would like to know the religious affiliations of this
NSW Judge who can demean a magistrate who actually witnessed the
testimony in the original case solely on the basis of his supposed
superior 'wisdom'.
Yet again we have the victims treated as
liars. I suppose they just came forward for nothing and the fact that
the person who abused them was tried and convicted of a similar offence
on others is irrelevant. These victims are now, effectively, by this
judge, seen as liars.
How rotten is this justice system which
continually treats victims as though they were perpetrators and which
gives special treatment to clergy despite the mountain of evidence that
covering up abuse by its members was ubiquitous.
It is long
past time this protection and privileged treatment of church ministers
and such was halted. Our judicial system is supposed to give equal
consideration to all. It demonstrably does nothing of the kind.
This sucks.