IRELAND
Irish Times
IRISH TIMES REPORTERS
Bishop of Clonfert John Kirby has denied being aware since the mid-1990s that a priest he moved following allegations of child sex abuse continued to abuse children in his new parish.
The Irish Times reported today that a priest, sentenced in 1994 to 10 years imprisonment for the sexual abuse of a boy, told Bishop Kirby in the mid-1990s that he had abused 17 children in the diocese.
Twice last month Bishop Kirby asserted that the priest in question did not abuse children in the parish to which he moved him.
In 1990, when the priest, known as Priest A, admitted to Bishop Kirby he had abused the boy concerned, he was moved to another parish where he abused more children.
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