CHILE
New Zealand Herald
Thursday Oct 16, 2014
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) A court in Chile has ruled that an Irish-born priest is guilty of sexually abusing an underage minor.
The court said Wednesday that the Rev. John O’Reilly committed the abuse while he was chaplain and spiritual guide at the Cumbres school in Santiago.
The families of two sisters accused the priest of molesting the girls between 2007 and 2011. The court absolved him in one of the cases.
O’Reilly is a member of the Legion of Christ. The once-respected conservative order fell into scandal after it revealed that its founder had fathered a child and had sexually abused seminarians.
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