AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Josephine Lim, Ellen Whinnett, News Corp Australia Network
July 2, 2017
THE Catholic Church will not pay legal fees for Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson as he prepares to face a two-week hearing this year on a charge of concealing child sex abuse.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide has confirmed that Wilson, who was charged in March 2015, was paying his own bills.
He stands accused of failing to give police information about the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy in 1971 by the now-dead paedophile priest James Fletcher in Maitland, NSW.
Wilson has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
His lawyers made three unsuccessful attempts in the Local Court, NSW Supreme Court and NSW Court of Appeal to have the charge quashed or permanently stayed.
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