IRELAND
Irish Central
By
PATRICK COUNIHAN,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Monday, October 8, 2012
A Catholic bishop has been accused of lying by the Irish Times over the case of a priest guilty of child sex abuse.
In a strongly worded story, the paper alleges that Bishop of Clonfert John Kirby was aware as far back as the mid-90s that a priest whom he moved following allegations of child sex abuse continued to abuse children in his parish.
This information, confirmed by the paper, is contrary to public statements from Bishop Kirby made just last month when he twice asserted that the priest in question did not abuse children in the parish to which he moved him.
The Irish Times reports that the priest, who was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in 1994 for the sexual abuse of one child in Co Galway, told Bishop Kirby in the mid-1990s that he had abused 17 children in the diocese.
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