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What Archbishop Philip Wilson knew about paedophile priest James Fletcher in 1976 will be tested in court next month
MICHAEL MCGUIRE THE ADVERTISER MARCH 20, 2015
DANIEL Feenan was born in 1976. The same year a newly ordained priest by the name of Philip Wilson was living in Maitland, in country NSW, with another priest called James Fletcher.
Fletcher was a paedophile.
Through the 1970s Fletcher was a serial preyer on young, defenceless boys and was left to run unchecked by the Catholic Church.
By 1989, when Feenan was 12, Fletcher was still on the prowl and the young boy was to become just another in a long line of the priest’s victims.
The question is: Why wasn’t Fletcher stopped? Did the Catholic Church turn a blind eye to the monster in its midst or was it just oblivious?
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