Chile: Irish priest guilty of sex-abuse on minor

New Zealand Herald
October 16, 2014

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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) A court in Chile has ruled that an Irish-born priest is guilty of sexually abusing an underage minor.

The court said Wednesday that the Rev. John O'Reilly committed the abuse while he was chaplain and spiritual guide at the Cumbres school in Santiago.

The families of two sisters accused the priest of molesting the girls between 2007 and 2011. The court absolved him in one of the cases.

O'Reilly is a member of the Legion of Christ. The once-respected conservative order fell into scandal after it revealed that its founder had fathered a child and had sexually abused seminarians.

Prosecutors are asking for O'Reilly to serve 10 years in prison and be banned from any job near children. The sentence will be announced on Nov. 11.