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Friday, December 17, 2010
the Vatican wanted an Irish priest convicted of molesting child ten years elapse in a monastery, but had no intention of reducing it to the lay state. This is shown by a chapter in the Murphy Report - the government report on the abuses of the clergy against children in Ireland from the 70s to today - published more than a year after the rest of the document because the trial of the priest in question, Tony Walsh , was still in progress.
Earlier this month the former priest was sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexually abusing three boys in the 70s and 80s. In the chapter of the Murphy Report which examines the case, the Catholic Church and the police suffer heavy criticism for more than 15 years Walsh was in fact free to molest children even though other priests, canons, monsignors, bishops and even the Archbishop of Dublin, were aware of what was happening. In the early 90's was an internal investigation was opened against him in 1993 and had reached the first request for removal from the priesthood.
Walsh, however, had appealed and the Vatican had decided in his favor. After molesting a child in the bathroom of a pub, Walsh was finally arrested in 1996, 16 years after the first complaint, the priest was defrocked. Forty people have complained of abuse by Walsh and the priest himself has admitted that he had "used children for sexual gratification "once every two weeks for a period of eight years.
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