IRELAND
RTE News
The national Cathedral of the Church of Ireland, St Patrick’s in Dublin, has apologised unreservedly for failing to care appropriately for victims of the serial child sexual abuser Patrick O’Brien.
In a statement issued this evening, the Cathedral also apologised for not providing the victims’ families with the care and support which they needed and to which they were entitled.
Today’s statement comes eight days after a 52-word statement from St Patrick’s Cathedral in response to the sentencing of O’Brien to 13 years imprisonment for sexually abusing and raping 13 boys and abusing one other over a 40-year period in locations including the Cathedral where he was a treasurer of an independent fundraising committee.
Kerry Lawless who, as a 15-year-old pupil of the neighbouring St Patrick’s Grammar School, helped secure O’Brien’s conviction for abusing him in 1989.
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