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Peter Creigh, whose name had been the subject of a suppression order before he asked for it to be lifted, told the Newcastle Local Court today the now-dead priest James Fletcher had preyed on him when he was an altar boy in 1971 in the NSW Hunter region.
Creigh said he went to see Wilson in the presbytery of an East Maitland parish in early 1976 to tell him about what Fletcher had done to him five years earlier.
Having kept the secret of Fletcher’s abuse for so long, Creigh trusted Wilson to take action against the pedophile priest but nothing happened.
“I thought I could trust him (Wilson),” Creigh, 57, said.
“At that stage, I was 15 and the abuse was starting to concern me, what had gone on five years prior.”
Creigh said Wilson had had a “look of horror” on his face when he told him about Fletcher’s abuse.
He said Wilson assured him he would mention the abuse claims to the parish priest and have it looked into.
Adelaide Archbishop ignored abuse claims: witness - InDaily
And given that it was 1976, he may very well have done nothing.
Creigh said he went to see Wilson in the presbytery of an East Maitland parish in early 1976 to tell him about what Fletcher had done to him five years earlier.
Having kept the secret of Fletcher’s abuse for so long, Creigh trusted Wilson to take action against the pedophile priest but nothing happened.
“I thought I could trust him (Wilson),” Creigh, 57, said.
“At that stage, I was 15 and the abuse was starting to concern me, what had gone on five years prior.”
Creigh said Wilson had had a “look of horror” on his face when he told him about Fletcher’s abuse.
He said Wilson assured him he would mention the abuse claims to the parish priest and have it looked into.
Adelaide Archbishop ignored abuse claims: witness - InDaily
And given that it was 1976, he may very well have done nothing.
