Lawyer's react with appeal as Cardinal cleared of role in sex abuse affair Lawyers say they have filed an appeal in cassation after a French appeals court overturns a cardinal's conviction for failing to report alleged sex abuse by a priest in a case that rocked the Catholic Church. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, had been given a six-month suspended jail sentence in March 2019 for not reporting that a priest in his diocese had allegedly abused dozens of boy scouts in the 1980s and 1990s. (COMPLETES VIDI1OJ80G_EN, VIDI1OJ89M_EN, and VIDI1OJ9H9_EN) IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES