Catholic Church ‘apologises for the suffering’ caused by ‘sexual sadist’ priest

STOKE-ON-TRENT (ENGLAND)
StokeOnTrentLive

February 8, 2021

To the outside, ‘Father Joe’ was seen as a saviour, a man carrying out God’s work. Behind closed doors, he was a sinner possessing sewer urges

The Roman Catholic Church has apologised for the ‘suffering’ caused by a ‘sadist priest’ when he sexually and physically abused a teenage boy.

Depraved Father Joseph Quigley committed a catalogue of offences against his teenage victim.

These included:

– Rubbing the boy’s inner thigh after making him wear gym kit;
– Making him take showers with the door open;
– Inflicting ‘sado-masochistic’ punishments on him such as locking him in the church’s crypt, a cold and dark room containing tombs;
– Beating the boy with a hurling stick and;
– Making the boy do sit-ups and press-ups as punishments, to stand in the corner and suck paracetamols, which have a bitter taste.

Quigley, aged 56, of Aston Hall, Church Lane, Stone, was convicted of a number of offences in December following a trial.

He was then jailed for 11-and-a-half years on January 29.

The offences took place while he was the parish priest at the church from 2002 until he was forced to resign in disgrace.

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