AUSTRALIA
Armidale Express
Mark Russell
Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson has told a NSW court he lived with a pedophile priest but had no idea he was abusing young boys.
Wilson, who’s the most senior Catholic official in the world to be charged with concealing child sexual abuse, on Wednesday revealed he lived with James Fletcher, two other priests and the local bishop in the NSW Hunter region in 1983.
That was seven years after two former altar boys allegedly told Wilson they’d been abused by Fletcher.
Wilson told Newcastle Local Court he was never friends with Fletcher but thought he was a good bloke.
“I had no reason to suspect he wasn’t,” the 67-year-old said.
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