Marist William Wade is one of less than a handful of Catholics to admit to covering up child sexual abuse

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated February 28 2020 - 10:45pm, first published 6:00pm
History: Hamilton woman Audrey Nash with a photo of her son Andrew at a gathering early this year at a memorial in the Hamilton Marist school grounds.
History: Hamilton woman Audrey Nash with a photo of her son Andrew at a gathering early this year at a memorial in the Hamilton Marist school grounds.

THEY were the guilty pleas that made Australian and world history, delivered in a packed Sydney courthouse on Friday without fanfare, that unleashed a wave of relief, grief, anger and then joy, that's been bottled up for nearly 50 years.

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