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	It's Time for Roddy to Act like a Real Father Exclusive Mother of Shamed Priest's New Baby Girl Plans to Make Him Take Paternity Test By Janice Burns The Daily Record [Scotland] June 20, 2006 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17258238&method=full&siteid= 66633&headline=it-s-time-for-roddy-to-act-like-a-real-father--name_page.html The mother of randy priest Father Roddy MacNeil's baby told him last night to act like a man and do right by his child. Hilda Robertson plans to force MacNeil to take a paternity test after he denied fathering her newborn daughter. She wants nothing more to do with the shamed cleric - dubbed Father Flash because of his love of fast cars and designer clothes. But she said: "Roddy is the father and he has to take responsibility for that. "I have already spoken to my lawyer about a paternity test and a letter has been sent out to Roddy. I have had no response." Hilda, 41, who is MacNeil's first cousin, added: "My baby is my only concern, nothing else matters. "I will do anything to protect her." The Daily Record revealed in February that Hilda was expecting 46-year-old MacNeil's baby after a two-year affair with the priest. She gave birth to her daughter at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital on Sunday - Father's Day. The tot, who has yet to be named, weighed in at 7lbs 20z. A close friend of Hilda said: "Mother and baby are doing well. "Hilda is the happiest she has been in a long time. The past ninemonths have been a rollercoaster ride for her because of all the publicity surrounding the father of her child. "She wants to keep her life private from now on to protect her baby. But she is determined to make Roddy face up to his responsibilities as a father. "Roddy will try to hide his head in the sand, as usual, and hope it goes away. But Hilda will make sure that is not going to happen." When we broke the story of Hilda's pregnancy, she told us how she dreamed of raising a family with MacNeil. She said: "Roddy told me he wanted us to have a baby. He said he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, and that he loved me more than anything in the world. "We both agreed that I would come off my contraception. And we had unprotected sex for about a year before I became pregnant. "It came as a bit of a shock at first but I was over the moon. After all, it was what we both wanted - the thing that would seal our relationship. "But when I told Roddy I was pregnant, he dumpedme." MacNeil, 46, romanced his cousin while serving as a priest on the Hebridean island of Barra. Hilda told how she and the priest lived as man and wife in the home provided for him by the Catholic Church. She was already married with a child. MacNeil had officiated at her wedding, and her son's chistening. Hilda, now estranged from her husband, recalled the first time she and MacNeil had sex. She said: "We began kissing and cuddling then we went up to his room. It was very passionate and he told me I was his first. "The sex was nothing special but the things he said to me made me feel like the only woman in the world. "I felt special because he was giving himself to me. I truly believed I was the first woman he had ever made love to." MacNeil, a close friend of Princess Diana's late mother, Frances Shand Kydd, was a charismatic and popular priest. But he was forced to quit Barra's Our Lady of the Sea parish in disgrace after his sexual adventures came to light. As well as his affair with Hilda, MacNeil had romanced a string of other women. And the balding romeo was finally suspended after wooing 22-year-old parishioner Jennifer Gilbert. Jennifer's furious mum, Evelyn, found out about the affair and reported MacNeil to church authorities. Hilda is convinced that as well as his other women, MacNeil has another child somewhere. She found a Father's Day card in the kitchen of his home while she was living with him. She said: "It is very sad if another woman out there is not getting any help or support, for herself or for his child. "Maybe if the other woman had come forward, this would never have happened to me. Everyone would have known what a sleazy low-life Roddy really was. "If I had known then what I know now, I wouldn't have been in any doubt that he had fathered a child. "I confronted him about the card but he denied having a child. I believed him at the time - I don't now." 'Roddy will hide his head in the sand as usual and hope that all this goes away.'
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