AUSTRALIA
The Advertiser
Margaret Scheikowski, AAP
June 7, 2017
CATHOLIC Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson has again failed to stop criminal proceedings against him over claims he concealed a colleague’s sexual abuse of a young boy.
Wilson is accused of concealing information about the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy in 1971 by the now-dead paedophile priest James Fletcher in the NSW Hunter region town of Maitland.
The NSW Court of Appeal on Tuesday dismissed his third attempt to have the proceedings quashed or permanently stayed.
Under the Crimes Act, it’s an offence to fail to give police information when a person knows or believes that someone else has committed “a serious indictable offence”.
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