article_snippet: The charge comes after The charge was revealed the senior figure in the Catholic Church did not report priest Jim Fletcher who was accused of paedophilia while the senior figure in the Catholic Church were working in the Maitland region, north of Sydney in New South Wales.
article_snippet: Jim Fletcher ended up serving prison time from 1989 to 1991 after Jim Fletcher was convicted of raping a 13-year-old boy.
article_snippet: Five years later, the convicted paedophile died.
article_snippet: A Special Commission of Inquiry conducted last year handed down that Jim Fletcherhad an extensive history of perpetrating child sexual abuse in the diocese, exclusively abusing young males, particularly altar boys'.
article_snippet: The charge is the result of an investigation by Strike Force Lantle, which since 2010 has probed allegations of concealment of child abuse by former and current clergy attached to the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese of the Catholic Church.
article_snippet: It comes as the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse continues in Sydney.
article_snippet: The charge comes as the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse continues in Sydney.