Huge church abuse settlement in Ireland
Dublin, Ireland -
The Roman Catholic Church offered a high-profile apology Tuesday and more than $300,000 to a former altar boy sexually abused by a priest, the biggest individual settlement of its kind in Ireland, where hundreds of such cases have yet to face court.
In a statement read before the High Court, Cardinal Desmond Connell, archbishop of the Dublin archdiocese, expressed "profound regrets" about "the injury caused to Mervyn Rundle by Father Tom Naughton."
Rundle, now 28, was abused by Naughton when he was 9 and 10. He and his father initially reported the abuse to church authorities in 1985, but Naughton wasn't convicted of molesting boys until 1998, when he received a three-year prison sentence.
Read the article at CNEWS World dated January 28, 2003
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The Roman Catholic Church offered a high-profile apology Tuesday and more than $300,000 to a former altar boy sexually abused by a priest, the biggest individual settlement of its kind in Ireland, where hundreds of such cases have yet to face court.
In a statement read before the High Court, Cardinal Desmond Connell, archbishop of the Dublin archdiocese, expressed "profound regrets" about "the injury caused to Mervyn Rundle by Father Tom Naughton."
Rundle, now 28, was abused by Naughton when he was 9 and 10. He and his father initially reported the abuse to church authorities in 1985, but Naughton wasn't convicted of molesting boys until 1998, when he received a three-year prison sentence.
Read the article at CNEWS World dated January 28, 2003
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