AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By court reporter Karl Hoerr
Lawyers for Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson, accused of concealing child sex abuse in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, have fronted court again for their third attempt to stop the case against him from going ahead.
Wilson, who has retained his position amid the criminal proceedings, is accused of failing to pass onto police information he had between 2004 and 2006 that might have helped convict Father Jim Fletcher.
It is alleged a boy told the senior clergyman, he had been indecently assaulted by Father Fletcher several years earlier.
Prosecutors claim Wilson came to believe the allegation decades later, after learning of other cases
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