IRELAND/UNITED STATES
The Irish Sun
By AOIFE FINNERAN
PRESSURE on embattled Cardinal Sean Brady to resign increased after a victim of paedophile Fr Brendan Smyth claimed he should face a criminal investigation.
US lawyer Helen McGonigle, who was abused by Smyth in the Sixties in Rhode Island, said Cardinal Brady’s failure to protect victims was “unforgivable”.
She blasted the cleric for his “arrogance and insensitivity” after it emerged that he did not tell authorities about at least five children who were victims of Smyth.
Brady was a priest in 1975 when he took part in a church inquiry into allegations by Brendan Boland, then 14, that he had been abused by Smyth.
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