Adelaide Archbishop pleads not guilty

AUSTRALIA
Sky News

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Adelaide’s Catholic Archbishop has pleaded not guilty to a charge of concealing child sexual abuse committed by a colleague.

Archbishop Philip Wilson was charged in March with one count of concealing information about a serious indictable offence, namely the 1971 sex assault of a 10-year-old boy by priest James Fletcher in Maitland in NSW.

Wilson was excused from appearing today at Newcastle Local Court, but his lawyer says he’s pleading not guilty.

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