AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
A Hunter Valley child sexual abuse victim is urging anyone who suspects a crime has been committed to contact police.
Peter Gogarty said he was relieved Adelaide’s Archbishop Philip Wilson will have to defend a charge of concealing child sexual abuse.
Wilson’s application was yesterday denied by magistrate Robert Stone, who said “elements of the offence may be able to be proved”.
If you suspect that a crime has been committed then you need to say something.
Peter Gogarty, Hunter Valley sexual abuse victim
During the hearing, the court was told the charge against Wilson was invalid as there was no evidence the offence he is accused of concealing ever happened.
The concealment charge relates to abuse in the 1970s by the now-dead paedophile priest James Fletcher.
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