NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Chris Kilpatrick
Saturday, 2 February 2013
Devastated victims of clerical abuse have called for a public inquiry into clerical abuse to be expedited after a priest walked free from court despite being convicted of sexually abusing a teenage girl.
Terrence Rafferty, the former adminstrator of Newry Cathedral and parish priest of Donaghmore, Co Down, escaped a custodial sentence at Craigavon Crown Court on Thursday.
The 50-year-old, with an address at Chestnut Grove in Newry, was sentenced to 100 hours’ community service having previously pleaded guilty to four counts of indecent assault.
The priest was also given a three-year probation order and banned from working with children or vulnerable adults for 10 years.
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