being seen as a landmark decision with broad ramifications for the church it sends
a message that the church is accountable and can't hide behind canon or the
confessional seal to escape reporting crimes like this yarber mohammed al jazeera
sydney to the court as
a campaigner and lawyer representing the victims of institutionalized child abuse
she joins us via skype from melbourne we appreciate it very much so as we reported
just
a moment ago one of the reasons that wilson's resignation even happened was because
of public pressures from leaders why do those leaders not used to employ it's
that they have to actually affect the laws. ok so.
in many ways the same to the maximum sentence under the laws of
new south wales would have been two years imprisonment that's and we've got to
understand and this is not right we've got to understand that when dave laws were
made they were not made with the with concealing trial six curran's in mind they