ADELAIDE (AUSTRALIA)
9News
December 8, 2017
More than 30 years after Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson ignored an altar boy’s claims he’d been abused by a pedophile priest he sent $1000 to the parents of another boy abused by the same priest, a court has heard.
Wilson, accused of concealing sexual abuse by the now-dead priest James Fletcher in the NSW Hunter region when told about it in 1976, sent the cheque in 2009, Newcastle Local Court was told on Friday.
The family of the abused boy refused to accept Wilson’s cheque and sent it back.
The abused boy’s sister, who cannot be named, told the court Wilson had been a family friend who had officiated with Fletcher at her wedding.
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