MALTA
Times of Malta

Dominican priest Mark Montebello is denying that he acted as an intermediary in the money offer made to a complainant in the clerical sex abuse case involving the former Kerygma Movement director Fr Charles Fenech, in return for her silence.

Following a telephone interview with him on Saturday ahead of the story in The Sunday Times of Malta, Fr Montebello is now saying that he had not acted as an intermediary in the matter.
Times of Malta is publishing Fr Montebello’s statement and, in view of his comments, it is also publishing the transcript of the phone call made before the Sunday Times of Malta story was published.

FR MONTEBELLO’S STATEMENT

“There must have been some misunderstanding with regard to the report by Matthew Xuereb in today’s Sunday Times on the cash offered to silence the alleged victim of Fr. Charles Fenech.

“May I…