IRELAND
Irish Independent
Tim Healy
PUBLISHED
01/07/2015
A former Catholic Archbishop has said that he first learned about RTÉ’s ‘Mission To Prey’ documentary 12 days before it was to be screened after he sent an email to his order with queries about it.
Tipperary native Richard Burke told the High Court yesterday that he was unaware RTÉ had been in contact with the Kiltegan Fathers on several occasions since March 2011.
He said he did not know in advance he would personally be featured on Prime Time Investigates programme and it was incorrect for RTÉ to say on the programme he had declined to be interviewed.
Dolores Atwood had made a formal complaint of child sexual abuse against former Archbishop of Benin, Nigeria, Richard Burke, to his order, the Kiltegan Fathers, in late 2008, the High Court heard.
She had also written to the Vatican in March 2008 and in 2005 she phoned Mr Burke’s order anonymously alleging he was having relations with women.
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