Should the bird of paradox be charged with concealing a serious crime? Here's the type of thing that the legal boffins talk about when it comes to concealment.
Quote: CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 316
Concealing serious indictable offence
316 Concealing serious indictable offence
(1) If a person has committed a serious indictable offence and another person who knows or believes that the offence has been committed and that he or she has information which might be of material assistance in securing the apprehension of the offender or the prosecution or conviction of the offender for it fails without reasonable excuse to bring that information to the attention of a member of the Police Force or other appropriate authority, that other person is liable to imprisonment for 2 years
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca190082/s316.html Sometimes, Commonwealth law links into state law and I'm sure the Commonwealth has the same serious view of concealing a crime.
Also, a priest was charged with concealing a crime so hiding behind a nice smile is no defence.
Quote:Priest charged with hiding sex crimes
HE was the ''right-hand man'' of a bishop, and a one-time acting bishop himself, but priest Tom Brennan has become the first Australian Catholic priest charged with concealing the alleged child sex crimes of another.
Father Brennan, 74, was arrested and charged yesterday with two counts of misprision of a felony - failing to disclose a serious crime - relating to alleged child sex offences by defrocked priest John Denham against two boys in the late 1970s.
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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/priest-charged-with-hiding-sex-crimes-20120830-253bn.h... The Commonwealth is keen to flush out sex crimes in the clergy so let's see if it is keen to flush out crimes in political parties.