AUSTRALIA
AAP via 9news
June 19, 2018
ARCHBISHOP PHILIP WILSON’S TRIAL:
WHO
Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson, 67, is the most senior Catholic official in the world to be charged with covering up child sex abuse.
WHAT
Wilson was accused of failing to report to police the repeated abuse of two altar boys by pedophile priest James Fletcher in the NSW Hunter region in the 1970s.
Fletcher was found guilty in December 2004 of nine counts of child sexual abuse.
One of the victims, Peter Creigh, expected Wilson – an assistant priest at the time – to take action after he told him Fletcher repeatedly abused him when he was 10 in 1971.
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