AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By David Marchese
A court has heard Adelaide’s Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson is launching another bid to have a charge of concealing child sexual abuse thrown out.
Wilson is the most senior Catholic clergyman in the world charged with covering up child sexual abuse.
He has pleaded not guilty to concealing the serious indictable offence of another person.
The charge relates to when Wilson was an assistant parish priest in East Maitland in the Hunter Valley in the 1970s, and worked with the now-dead paedophile priest James Fletcher.
In March 2015, Wilson issued a statement denying the allegation.
“The suggestion appears to be that I failed to bring to the attention of police a conversation I am alleged to have had in 1976, when I was a junior priest, that a now-deceased priest had abused a child,” Wilson said.
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