French judges handed a six-month suspended jail sentence to Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, marking the first conviction of such a high-ranking Catholic Church leader for covering up child sex abuse.
PARIS—French judges handed a six-month suspended jail sentence to a cardinal on Thursday, marking the first conviction of such a high-ranking Catholic Church leader for covering up child sex abuse.
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who was appointed archbishop in the French city of Lyon in 2002, was accused of covering up for an abusive priest and endangering minors, the first time a cardinal has stood trial for failing to act on abuse accusations. The abuse by Father Bernard Preynat, who was a priest in the Lyon diocese from 1971...
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