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Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson pleads not guilty to concealment of child sex abuse charges
Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson has pleaded not guilty to charges of concealing child sex abuse.
The charges relate to abuse allegedly committed by fellow priest Jim Fletcher when the pair worked at NSW’s Maitland Diocese in the 1970s.
Court documents reveal the concealment charges involve the case of a 10-year-old boy allegedly abused in 1971.
Fletcher was convicted of nine sexual abuse charges in 2006.
He died shortly after being sentenced to at least seven and a half years for his crimes.
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