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Diocese of Ossory. Since 1975, a total of 27 allegations of abuse have been made against 14 priests in the Diocese of Ossory. All of these allegations were eventually reported to the Gardaí and the HSE. The Diocese of Ossory has paid €370,000 in compensation to the victims of child sexual abuse.
On 18 September 2006 an article in the Irish Independent stated that a four-year Garda (police) inquiry into allegations that the Catholic Church covered up child sex abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese had failed to produce sufficient evidence to lay charges against any senior church figures. In the interim the government established the ...
Allegations of abuse of children in certain institutions owned, managed, and largely staffed by the Sisters of Mercy, in Ireland, form a sub-set of allegations of child abuse made against Catholic clergy and members of Catholic religious institutes in several countries in the late 20th century. The abusive conduct allegedly perpetrated at ...
Philippines. In 2002 the Catholic Church apologized for sexual abuses, including adultery, homosexuality and child abuse by 200 priests over the previous 20 years. [40] In 2003 at least 34 priests were suspended in a sex abuse scandal involving sexual harassment of women. Twenty men were from a single diocese.
Due to the success of the 2009 Murphy Report, a judicial inquiry into the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin, the same team was reappointed to investigate allegations surrounding the diocese of Cloyne. Its remit included investigating the state's health and policing practices as well as the Church itself.
The highest-ranked official of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin slammed Irish Roman Catholic orders for concealing their culpability in decades of child abuse, and said they needed to come up with much more money to compensate victims. [26]
Allegations against 10 priests since 1960. According to the Irish Times, allegations have been made against 10 priests since 1960. Three are now deceased and one case is before the courts. The DPP has decided not to proceed with two other cases. There have been no convictions. The diocese says no priest under investigation is in active ministry.
In 1999, Fr. Eugene Greene, a priest who served in the Diocese of Raphoe, was arrested after being charged with committing numerous acts of sex abuse between the years 1965 and 1992. [ 1 ] In 2000, Greene was sentenced to 12 years in jail after being accused of abusing up to 26 boys. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Greene, who had pleaded guilty to 40 out of 115 ...