BELFAST (NORTHERN IRELAND)
BBC
February 8, 2018
[Note from BishopAccountability.org: Includes brief video of interview with a Finnegan survivor.]
A County Down man who was sexually abused by a priest as a child said he did not speak out as he was told it would “ruin” the rest of his life.
Sean Faloon from Hilltown was first abused as an altar boy from the age of 10 by Fr Malachy Finnegan.
Fr Finnegan, who died in 2002, also abused boys at St Colman’s College in Newry, where he taught from 1967 to 1976.
Twelve victims have come forward to the Catholic Diocese of Dromore.
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