IRELAND
Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
‘Did you ever do anything like this before?’: Victim of child abusing priest tells of secret church investigation by Cardinal which swore him to silence
The leader of Ireland’s 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, is under renewed pressure after he was accused of failing to act on child abuse by a notorious paedophile priest in the 1970s.
Brady has already admitted he took notes of two children’s testimony of abuse in 1975 and gave the report to his bishop, not the police.
One of those children, now an adult, told the BBC he also alerted Brady to other children being abused by the same priest, Father Brendan Smyth, but Brady did not warn their parents of the danger.
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