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Teesside, England, United Kingdom --
The Catholic Church on Teesside received complaints 30 years ago about the sexual cravings of convicted paedophile priest Michael Dunn but chose to hush them up, the Gazette can reveal.
Today, three decades on from Dunn's sex abuses, the Bishop of Middlesbrough, the Rt Rev John Crowley, issued a public apology for the trauma suffered by his young victim.
Dunn was yesterday jailed for 18 months after admitting sexually abusing the 13-year-old Teesside boy in the mid 70s when he was a priest at Christ the King Church in Thornaby.
The Gazette has learned that complaints to the church about Dunn at the time of the abuse were not passed to police.
Diocesan officials said complaints from the family were likely to have resulted in a "ticking off" and Dunn being moved to another parish.
Since then Dunn served in different parishes on Teesside and Hull and was a trusted priest. He was picked by Bishop Crowley to be on his Council of Priests for 2005 just six months before being charged.
Read the article at icTeesside dated Mar 4 2005
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The Catholic Church on Teesside received complaints 30 years ago about the sexual cravings of convicted paedophile priest Michael Dunn but chose to hush them up, the Gazette can reveal.
Today, three decades on from Dunn's sex abuses, the Bishop of Middlesbrough, the Rt Rev John Crowley, issued a public apology for the trauma suffered by his young victim.
Dunn was yesterday jailed for 18 months after admitting sexually abusing the 13-year-old Teesside boy in the mid 70s when he was a priest at Christ the King Church in Thornaby.
The Gazette has learned that complaints to the church about Dunn at the time of the abuse were not passed to police.
Diocesan officials said complaints from the family were likely to have resulted in a "ticking off" and Dunn being moved to another parish.
Since then Dunn served in different parishes on Teesside and Hull and was a trusted priest. He was picked by Bishop Crowley to be on his Council of Priests for 2005 just six months before being charged.
Read the article at icTeesside dated Mar 4 2005
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