When the "Father" Brendan
Smith child abuse scandal broke in 1994 , it brought
down the Irish coalition government of Fianna Fail
under Albert Reynolds and the Labour Party under Dick
Spring. 1994 was a watershed year in Ireland
regarding child abuse and the Smith Affair was only
the first in a long line of paedophile expose's ,
involving Roman Catholic priests , which would come
to light in the coming years !
In 1997 , while in prison , Ft.
Brendan Smith conveniently died of a heart attack ,
brought on by a drugs overdose , we are told!
Another paedophile Roman Catholic
priest was Ft. Fortune from Wexford who also
capitulated conveniently to a drug/alcohol overdose ,
just before he was due in court on several charges
involving child abuse.
Ft. Fortune's boss , Bishop
Comiskey of Ferns County Wexford , is a self
confessed alcoholic , who , according to newspaper
reports , took first-class holidays in Thailand , a
country infamous for its child prostitution. There
were also allegations that the good Bishop refused to
cooperate with Garda enquiries into the Ft. Fortune
child abuse scandal.
Bishop Comiskey of Ferns Wexford
After the Ft. Smith and Ft. Fortune
scandals broke , there has been a deludge of child
abuse cases involving Roman Catholic priests.
Between 1994 and 2001 , scores of
RC Church paedophile priests have been brought before
the courts on child abuse charges and now the Laffoy
Commission is investigating more than 2500 cases of
child abuse against mainly RC clergy.
Notable examples of Irish child sex
abuse crimes involving priests are ; the Roman
Catholic Christian Brothers at the Artane Boys Home ,
the Letterfrack Boys Home , St Josephs Home in Tralee
, "Brothers of Charity " Lota House in Cork
, St Joesphs College Kilkenny etc. These are but a
few examples of the RC church paedophile catalogue of
crimes against children in Ireland !
Latest news on this subject;
added 1/4/02 ...
The Bishop of Ferns, Dr Brendan
Comiskey, resigns
Irish Newspapers - Irish News, News
Ireland, Irish Online, Sports, Business,
Entertainment----video
showing Fortune abusing young boy adds pressure
on "Bishop Comiskey"!
See : Child Abuse and SRAbuse in Ireland
See : Ireland's child abuse
BBC
News | UK | Church 'ignoring rules' on abuse
--This article is witness that six RC priests
have been convicted of child abuse in the UK
between 1996 and 1999, however this is a puny
figure in comparison with the Irish situation.
Priests
and other hypocrits - sex with children
--This web page is witness that 450 sexual
assault cases by RC clergy have been brought
before the Australian courts!
Roman
Catholic Pedophile Priests -- Interesting
examination of RC clergy and abuse statistics in
the USA.
All of these child abuse cases
involved ordinary priests but not one high ranking
clergy in the Roman Church in Ireland has been
brought to court! However , this does not mean that
the abused children only accused ordinary priests ;
in fact , high ranking RC clergy have indeed been
linked to abused children.
There was one very important
newspaper article , published in 1997 in the Kilkenny
People , which has all but been brushed under the
carpet . The article , which was published in June
1997 , proclaimed that sex-abuse victims from a SE
Leinster based "Survivors" group planned to
name a Bishop , a high ranking Garda , a Minister (
one assumes that this means a Government Minister)
and a number of high profile
"personalities"( one suspects the author
means prominent people in the media , ie; TV , Radio,
film and theatre ).
Weekly , we hear of yet more
priests being brought before the courts on charges of
child abuse , yet no charges are being made against
any of the aforementioned!
I would like to ask : why not?
Who are the "high profile
" personalities?
Who is the paedophile government
minister?
Is there a cover-up?
Is there an amnesty for the rich
and powerful in child abuse cases ?
