IRELAND
Irish Times
[Safeguarding Reviews 2nd Tranche – September 2012]
FIONA GARTLAND
DOMINICANS: ALLEGATIONS OF sexual abuse have been made against 27 Dominican friars since 1975, a review of that order has found.
Some 52 allegations were reported to gardaí, concerning the 27 friars, and two friars were convicted of offences against children.
One friar who had allegations made against him in 1990 was allowed to continue in ministry until 1995 and took part in national church initiatives aimed at improving responses to allegations of abuse.
The Review of Safeguarding Practice in the Irish Province of Dominican Friars, by The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland, said 12 of the 27 friars with allegations against them were alive at the time of the review.
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