CHILE
The Sun Daily
Posted on 5 September 2013
SANTIAGO (Sept 5, 2013): An Irish-born priest was ordered under house arrest in Chile on Wednesday, amid a widening paedophilia scandal that has engulfed the religious order he belongs to.
Father John O’Reilly, a senior figure with the Legion of Christ in Chile religious order, was detained while authorities investigate the “credibility of the allegations” against him and others at an exclusive school run by the order in Santiago.
Officials said O’Reilly is barred from leaving his home and has been denied the right to leave the country.
He also has been relieved of all his priestly duties and forbidden from having contact with minors, while authorities probe allegations that he sexually abused such individuals.
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