IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Friday, December 02, 2016
Ann O’Loughlin
A former Catholic priest, who is being sued in the High Court for alleged sexual assault and abuse of a teenager in a school, has claimed revenge is the motivation behind the claims.
The priest, who was a chaplain in the school in the South East, also denied at a school disciplinary hearing any sexual activity of any kind took place, including at the girl’s home when her parents were away; when she was babysitting for a neighbour; in the chaplain’s office; the oratory; or his car.
He told the hearing that at one stage he pleaded with the girl to stop and rejected her by telling her to “fuck off”.
“I wanted to get out from under her clutches,” he said.
The now 28-year old woman has sued, alleging between 2004 and 2007 she was repeatedly and wrongfully physically and sexually assaulted, falsely imprisoned, and sexually abused and subjected to sexualised behaviour by the then Catholic chaplain and teacher in her secondary school. She has sued the priest, as well, as the school in the South East and the local bishop.
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