IRELAND
Irish Independent
10 DECEMBER 2013
CONCERNS about a priest who was recently convicted of abusing 18 boys in five counties over two decades were not passed onto the civil authorities when it became known in the early 1980s.
A review of the Diocese of Achonry highlighted three cases of “problematic” management of priests and religious from outside the diocese.
In 1981 a priest arrived in the diocese to provide cover for a colleague, unbeknown to the bishop. Priest P spent five months in the diocese and returned the following year when he sexually abused a boy.
The review found evidence that information about Fr P’s abuse of this young boy was made available to a priest of the diocese “at an early stage”, but had not been passed on by the diocese to the civil authorities.
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