AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
Adelaide’s Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson has pleaded not guilty to concealing child sexual abuse allegations against a paedophile priest.
Wilson was not in court today but he was represented by his lawyer, Simon Buchen.
Police allege that between 2004 and 2006, Wilson concealed a child sexual abuse allegation that had been made against the late Hunter Valley paedophile priest Jim Fletcher.
Court documents say Wilson believed Fletcher had indecently assaulted a 10-year-old boy in 1971, and knew he had information which might help with Fletcher’s prosecution.
The documents say, without reasonable excuse, Wilson failed to bring that information to the attention of police.
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