Murphy commission ‘fell far short’ when it came to slamming Church over sexual abuse cases

IRELAND
Irish Central

[Commissions of Investigation and Procedural Fairness – Association of Catholic Priests]

[Murphy Report – via BishopAccountability.org]

By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Staff Writer

Ireland’s Association of Catholic Priests is to release a damning report into the findings of the tribunal set up to examine the church’s reaction to clerical sex abuse.

An ACP review of the Murphy commission report into the Catholic church’s handling of clerical sex abuse cases in Ireland says it ‘fell far short’ of meeting the requirements of natural and constitutional justice.

The review commissioned by the ACP says that the ‘practices and procedures’ of the Murphy commission left a lot to be desired where Catholic clergy called before it were concerned.

The Irish Times reports that the ACP review says the Murphy commission ‘veered off the tight rails imposed by the 2004 Commissions of Investigation Act and wandered into an adversarial arena that concentrated, to an alarming degree, on naming and shaming those clerics whom the Commission found wanting in child protection at that time.’

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