French cardinal found guilty of covering up sexual abuse

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Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the archbishop of Lyon, was given a six-month suspended prison sentence on Thursday for failing to report to the authorities accusations made against the priest.
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The scandal in Lyon emerged in 2015 when a former Scout went public with allegations that a local priest, Bernard Preynat, had abused him as a child 25 years earlier.

Devaux also filed a complaint against Barbarin, the priest’s superior, alleging he had known about the abuse and covered it up.
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The head of the Vatican’s powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Spanish archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, was also accused of complicity in the alleged cover-up in Lyon. But the Vatican cited his immunity from prosecution to avoid a trial.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/07/philippe-barbarin-french-cardinal-found-guilty-of-failing-to-act-on-sexual-abuse-allegations

So, the Vatican under Francis is still trying to avoid accountability and convictions.