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	Adelaide Archbishop Denies Sex-abuse Knowledge By Leigh Sales ABC - Lateline May 21, 2010 http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2010/s2906481.htm Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide has denied knowing about sexual abuse by another priest in the New South Wales Hunter Valley in the 1980s. Police are investigating complaints from victims who allege he failed to report sexual abuse by clergy against children. An abuse victim told Lateline earlier this week that Philip Wilson lived in the same house as an abusive priest and couldn't have avoided seeing him coming or going from the priest's bedroom. PHILIP WILSON, CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF ADELAIDE: I think that those things at that time were pretty loose, but I had to make it clear that I didn't see anything at that time that indicated abuse was happening. I had no inkling that that was taking place. LEIGH SALES: Archbishop Wilson says if he had known of the abuse he would have taken it to the bishop. He's the chairman of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference and is widely tipped as the next Archbishop of Sydney if Cardinal George Pell takes up a Vatican post.
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