The emeritus bishop of a large Australian diocese was convicted of multiple counts of sexual abuse today, in a key development of a scandal which has been underway for many years.
Following a seven-hour deliberation by the jury at the District Court of Western Australia, Bishop Christopher Saunders was convicted of sexual assault of two indigenous men. He was found guilty of a total of 13 out of 19 charges of abuse, in instances which dated from 2008 to 2019 whilst Saunders was in situ as bishop of Broome.
