NEWCASTLE (AUSTRALIA)
The Newcastle Herald
December 8 2017
By Sam Rigney
CONCERNED about the “acts of punishment” that Hunter priest Jim Fletcher had been subjecting him to, a young Peter Creigh reached out to someone he thought he could trust.
It was 1976 and Mr Creigh, then a 15-year-old boy, sought out the “young, fun” priest who organised the youth group activities at St Joseph’s Church, East Maitland.
That man, he claims, was Philip Wilson, then a junior Maitland-Newcastle priest, now the Archbishop of Adelaide and the most senior Catholic cleric in the world to be charged with concealing child sex allegations involving another priest. He denies the allegation.
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