AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
November 11, 2012
Heath Aston
Sun-Herald state political editor
THE Bishop of Maitland and Newcastle, Bill Wright, has agreed to attend the launch of a book detailing the rape of an altar boy by a Catholic priest who later died in jail.
The book, Holy Hell, has been written by Patricia Feenan, one of the Hunter region’s campaigners for a full royal commission on sexual abuse by the clergy in NSW.
The foreword to the book has been penned by whistleblower cop, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, who will also attend the book launch at the Catholic Church complex in Newcastle on December 6.
Ms Feenan’s son Daniel was raped by Father James Patrick Fletcher and suffered other sexual atrocities at the hands of the paedophile priest in the early 1990s. Fletcher was jailed for ten years in 2004 but died in custody 18 months later.
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