AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
By KATE McILWAIN June 25, 2014
A former Wollongong bishop threatened to take the matter of a priest accused of child molestation all the way to the Pope, a hearing into institutional child abuse heard.
On the second day of a public hearing into how the Wollongong Catholic Diocese responded to complaints of child sexual abuse against then Father John Nestor in the 1990s, the now Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson was the first witness.
Following on from his appearance the previous day, Archbishop Wilson was questioned about events in 1997.
At that time, Mr Nestor had successfully appealed a conviction of aggravated indecent assault against a 15-year-old altar boy.
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