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Failed Messiah
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, Australia, Philip Wilson, has now been charged with allegedly concealing child sex abuse by another priest during the 1970s, the Herald Sun reported.
The case has striking similarities to the coverups allegedly instituted by Chabad in both Sydney and Melbourne, and could foreshadow criminal charges that may be brought against top Chabad rabbinic and lay leaders in both cities.
Wilson, 64, allegedly failed to report child sex abuse allegedly committed by his friend, Father Jim Fletcher, when both men were priests near Newcastle in New South Wales.
Fletcher was later convicted of raping a 13-year-old boy between 1989 and 1991 and was sentenced to prison. He died nine years ago.
But last year, a government Special Commission of Inquiry reportedly found Fletcher “had an extensive history of perpetrating child sexual abuse in the diocese, exclusively abusing young males, particularly altar boys”.
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