IRELAND
Sunday Independent
Niamh Horan
Published 06/07/2014
The latest chapter in the tragic life of Phyllis Hamilton has come to light – it has been revealed she had a third child, after being raped by a priest.
The woman, who took on the Catholic Church after living an extraordinary double life with Fr Michael Cleary, gave birth to a baby girl following the sexual assault.
The baby was born after the two boys she had with Fr Cleary and was given up for adoption to a family in America.
It is not known where the girl – who would be in her 20s now – is today, or whether she has tried to find her birth mother since.
The final sad instalment to the legacy of Phyllis Hamilton has become public 13 years after she died from cancer, having undergone DNA tests to categorically prove her son Ross Hamilton was fathered by Fr Cleary.
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