French cardinal to go on trial over child abuse cover-up

January 6, 2019 By La Rédaction De Mediapart

Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the archbishop of Lyon, is to stand trial along with five others over claims they helped cover up abuse in local parish.

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The highest-profile Catholic cleric to be caught up in a paedophile scandal in France is to go on trial on Monday charged with failing to report a priest who abused boy scouts in the 1980s and 90s, reports FRANCE 24.

French cardinal to go on trial over child abuse cover-up

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