IRELAND
The Irish Post (UK)
By Niall O’Sullivan on July 26, 2013
SURVIVOR of clerical sex abuse has slammed crass gardaí who launched a ‘scurrilous’ campaign against him in the 1980s.
Cheshire-based Irishman James Moran revealed how police in Ireland pursued him with allegations of blackmail after he returned to Dublin in 1987 to confront the priest who abused him.
Details of the garda campaign against him were brought to light as the final chapter of the Murphy Report was released earlier this month.
Mr Moran also alleges a teacher abused him during the same period.
Originally from Co. Kildare, he is now demanding to know why officers went to extraordinary lengths to treat him as a “criminal” when he tried to expose the priest who abused him as a schoolboy.
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