NEW YORK (NY)
Irish Central
March 26, 2019
Bishop Eamon Casey, whose 1970s affair with a young American woman produced a child and was the first major shockwave for the Irish Catholic Church, also abused three young girls, including his niece at the age of five it has been revealed.
His niece, Patricia Donovan, told the Irish Daily Mail that she was raped by Casey when she was just five years old and assaulted sexually for years by the Bishop.
Donovan, now 56, said, “It was rape, everything you imagine. It was the worst kind of abuse, it was horrific.
“I stopped being able long ago to find any words in the English language to describe what happened to me. It was one horrific thing after another.”
Donovan was one of three women who made allegations that they were abused as children and in two of the cases financial settlements were made. Casey admitted he had molested one of the girls when he was based in Britain.
he Irish Times reports that “In one of the cases, Bishop Casey, who died in March 2017 aged 89, admitted the abuse when he was serving as a priest up to 2005 in the south England diocese of Arundel and Brighton.
Speaking then to the English diocese’s child protection officer Fr Kieran O’Brien, according to a diocesan document, Bishop Casey said “that there was another historical case dealt with by his solicitors in Dublin.”
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