That's Ireland
February 10, 2008
http://thatsireland.com/2008/02/10/the-cardinal-connell-child-sex-abuse-files/
Bizarrely, apologists for Cardinal Connell seem to be suggesting that the reason he is trying to hide files from the child abuse Commission is that he wants to protect the confidentiality of the victims of these crimes. However, Connell already has form in concealing knowledge of serious sexual crimes from the police, and the effect of this has been to protect the criminals and the Catholic Church, not the victims.
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So what is in the files that Cardinal Connell is trying to hide? Well, the Commission is examining how the Dublin Archdiocese responded to a representative sample of complaints against priests. If those samples are similar to cases we already know about, the files could contain such behaviour as refusing to tell the police that a priest had admitted sexually abusing a sick child in a hospital and photographing the abuse, telling a victim of child sexual abuse that she was trying to ruin the good name of her abuser, lending money to a paedophile priest to settle a legal case against a victim then telling the media that he had not compensated anybody, appointing a paedophile priest as chaplain to a hospital without telling the hospital why, deciding to have a particularly vicious paedophile priest defrocked then letting him continue as a priest while appealing the decision thus enabling him to sexually assault the grandson of a deceased person after a funeral, and generally moving paedophile priests from parish to parish to continue sexually abusing children.
Here are details of five sample cases in which we already know that Cardinal Connell presided over the above responses.
The Cardinal Connell Files No 1 - Fr McGennis
The Cardinal Connell Files No 2 - Fr Payne
The Cardinal Connell Files No 3 - Fr Reynolds
The Cardinal Connell Files No 4 - Fr Walsh
The Cardinal Connell Files No 5 - Fr Naughton
What else is in the files that Cardinal Connell is trying to hide?
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