after being found guilty of failing to act on allegations of child sex abuse in his diocese phillipe barbara and five others stood trial accused of doing nothing to protect children from alleged crimes committed by a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's tasha butler has more from leo where the trial took place. and after the verdict was read out the lawyer for victims association here in said outside the courtroom that this was an historic occasion and that's because it involves one of france's top catholic clerics the cardinal filipe been found guilty by this court of failing to report child sexual abuse he has been handed a six month suspended prison sentence now the cardinal decided not to appear for the verdict he had been here in january during his trial his lawyers say that he will appeal the cardinal has always denied the charges leveled against him and they really center around the case of a priest called they are now in the seventy's eighty's and ninety's is accused of abusing dozens of young boys in his parish now his alleged victims say that cardinal barbara knew

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a catholic cardinal guilty of failing to act on allegations of child sex abuse in his diocese phillip barbara a prominent church figure and five others stood trial they were accused of failing to protect children from alleged crimes committed by a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's the trial was held in leon that's where our correspondent natasha butler is so natasha what is the sentence. well the court here in leon handed out its verdict a short while ago and it found that. was. guilty or failing to report child sexual abuse he was handed a six month suspended prison sentence for i was actually in court he did attend his trial in january but declined to be here today and this case really revolves around the case of another priest about an airplane an act he is actually accused of abusing boys in the seventy's eighty's and ninety's and what many of his alleged victims of it was said over the past years is that cardinal knew this was happening but he allowed this priest. to continue to work with children right up until his retirement in twenty fifteen and they say that that

and his trial in january french cardinal phillip barbara told a court in leon that he had never covered up the sexual abuse of boys by a catholic priest the cardinals accused of failing to report bernard pray now to authorities over allegations he abused boys from the one nine hundred seventy s. to the one nine hundred ninety s. as a child falls for divorce was one of the priests victims now he campaigns for justice he said aloud pray not to work with children until his retirement in twenty fifteen . or against children deb use was on a massive scale that cardinal barbara collette hume continued to work in a position of moral and spiritual authority unacceptable. the case is shaken france's catholic church and inspired a film that won a top prize of the berlin film festival by the grace of god follows the alleged victim's story because katrina and her prior. to treat an actor from somebody like . it was in this parish in lieu of that at least seventy men say the painter abused them as children some were easy young a seven years old burn a brain at is now awaiting trial his alleged victi