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Adelaide’s Catholic archbishop has again failed to stop criminal proceedings against him over claims he concealed a colleague’s sexual abuse of a young boy.
Archbishop Philip Wilson is accused of concealing information about the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy in 1971 by the now-dead pedophile 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”.
Prosecutors allege that between 2004 and 2006, Wilson failed to bring material information to police relating to the alleged 1971 indecent assault.
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