AUSTRALIA
ABC News
A victim of child sexual abuse says he is hopeful Adelaide’s Archbishop will ultimately be forced to defend a charge of concealing abuse against children.
Philip Wilson, the Archbishop of Adelaide, is the most senior catholic official in the world accused of concealing child sexual abuse.
He pleaded not guilty at Newcastle Local Court yesterday with Wilson’s legal team calling for a permanent stay of proceedings.
The charge relates to when Wilson was an assistant parish priest in East Maitland in the 1970s and worked with paedophile priest James Fletcher.
The magistrate has set a date for a one-day hearing in December to hear the legal argument from both sides, with no witnesses to be called.
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