Guilty verdict for Archbishop Philip Wilson 'almost unheard of', says Spotlight investigator

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.

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