AUSTRALIA
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
August 14, 2018
By Nancy Notzon
An abuse survivor has been called “rubbish” by a member of Adelaide’s former Catholic archbishop Philip Wilson’s entourage, in an exchange played out in front of a media scrum.
Wilson had just been told by a Newcastle magistrate he could serve his sentence for concealing historical child sex abuse in home detention as opposed to prison.
As he left the court, Peter Gogarty — who was a victim of paedophile priest Jim Fletcher — asked Wilson to apologise but the clergyman stayed silent.
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