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Margaret Scheikowski – AAP on October 14, 2016
Adelaide’s Catholic Archbishop has failed again to stop criminal proceedings against him over claims he concealed a colleague’s sexual abuse of a young boy.
Archbishop Philip Wilson is charged with concealing information about the 1971 sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy by the now-dead pedophile priest James Fletcher in the NSW town of Maitland.
The prosecution claims Wilson knew or had information that might have helped to secure a prosecution of the priest between 2004-2006.
The archbishop, who has pleaded not guilty to the charge in the Newcastle Local Court, is the most senior Catholic official worldwide to be charged with such an offence.
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