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26 July 2016

Catholic archbishop fights child abuse charge

The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide will ask the NSW Supreme Court to dismiss a criminal prosecution alleging he failed to report child abuse by a priest.
Archbishop Philip Wilson, the most senior Catholic official worldwide to be charged with such an offence, had unsuccessfully argued that the prosecution was “unjustly oppressive” to him, and “will culminate in an unfair trial”, court documents show.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/catholic-archbishop-fights-child-abuse-charge/news-story/5c40a506563f5eecdb6125eeebf98215