Alert on a Paedo Who Lives near Kids, Alex Peake, The Sun, February 23, 2009

Alert on a Paedo Who Lives near Kids

By Alex Peake
The Sun
February 23, 2009

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2266569.ece

Ivan Payne ... ex-priest

A PAEDOPHILE priest who preyed on his victims as they lay sick in hospital is living in Britain, The Sun can reveal.

Father Ivan Payne, 65, who molested children in Dublin from 1968-87, was convicted in 1998 of sexually abusing eight boys. He was freed from jail in 2002.

Now he lives in Aderdare, South Wales — less than a mile from a primary school.

When confronted, he said: “The police here and in Ireland both know I am here. I am in communication with the Catholic church. I have not re-offended.”

But a source close to the local Catholic church said: “He committed horrendous crimes. His neighbours will not know about his background. To them he will seem like a nice old man.”

A spokesman for the Catholic Church in Dublin refused to comment.