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11 December 2017

Archbishop sent $1000 to victim's parents

More than 30 years after Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson ignored an altar boy's claims he'd been abused by a pedophile priest he sent $1000 to the parents of another boy abused by the same priest, a court has heard.
Wilson, accused of concealing sexual abuse by the now-dead priest James Fletcher in the NSW Hunter region when told about it in 1976, sent the cheque in 2009, Newcastle Local Court was told on Friday.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/38194962/archbishop-failed-altar-boy-nsw-court/