AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
Gemma Jones
The Daily Telegraph
November 15, 2012
THE Catholic church honoured a paedophile priest – who died in jail – with a marble headstone which listed his achievements.
One of James Patrick Fletcher’s victims yesterday said the burial in the priests’ section of Sandgate Cemetery near Newcastle was the “final insult”.
A brass plaque records the deviant’s career as a priest. In death he kept his title of Reverend Father.
A court found the 65-year-old had committed “a gross and inexcusable breach of trust” when he raped an altar boy, a crime for which he was sentenced to almost eight years prison, where he died in 2006.
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