AUSTRALIA
Telegraph
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 13, 2013
A PRIEST alleged to have cried when told by a victim that she had been sexually abused as a child by a member of the clergy said he had not shed a tear since he was a boy.
“Not even when my mother and father died,” Father Francis Mulcahy told the royal commission into child sex abuse yesterday.
An emotional Jennifer Ingham, who was sexually abused for four years by a Catholic colleague of Father Mulcahy, has told the commission he was one of the first people she told.
But yesterday he was called as a witness and denied knowing her or having been at such a meeting.
Ms Ingham, 51, said Father Mulcahy, who was in her dad’s class at a Catholic boarding school, was at a meeting of senior clergy in 1990 at Lismore when she got up the courage to confront the church and tell of her years of abuse by the late Father Rex Brown.
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