IRELAND
RTE News
The Catholic Church’s child protection watchdog has begun publishing reviews of four dioceses and five other church entities.
The review found the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin moved to significantly restrict or terminate the ministries of 27 of a sample of 40 priests about whom safeguarding concerns have arisen over the past decade.
The NBSCCC described as remarkable the success of the Dublin archdiocese’s child safeguarding team in “turning around a shocking and grievous situation”.
According to the review, over 400 allegations of child sexual abuse were made against 101 priests of the Dublin Archdiocese over the past 38 years.
Rather than duplicate the work of the 2009 Murphy Commission, which exposed a policy of cover-ups up to the appointment of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in mid-2004, the NBSCCC examined the files of 40 local priests or former priests about whom safeguarding concerns had arisen since that time.
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