AUSTRALIA
The Australian
ANDREW DOWDELL THE ADVERTISER MARCH 18, 2015
PATRICIA Feenan lost her faith in the Catholic Church years ago, but is pinning her hopes in the legal system to determine if Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson conspired to hide child sex abuse.
Mrs Feenan — whose son, Daniel, exposed the crimes of paedophile priest Father James Fletcher — said a charge of concealing church sexual abuse against Archbishop Wilson was a major development.
“It was a relief to realise finally that a senior person could be charged. I have faith in the legal system, I always say the church let us down but the legal system and the police didn’t,” she said.
Fletcher died in prison in 2006 while serving a sentence for abusing Daniel Feenan in the early 1990s, however it is alleged the priest’s crimes dated back to at least the mid-1970s.
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