
Church received four separate complaints of childhood sexual abuse against Bishop Casey and one further child safeguarding concern'
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Investigation conducted by RT in association with the Irish Mail on Sunday into Church's handling of complaints against Bishop Eamonn Casey
Feature length documentary Bishop Casey's Buried Secrets to be broadcast tonight, Monday on RT One and worldwide on RT Player
The former CEO of The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland, Ian Elliott, has described Bishop Eamonn Casey as a sexual predator in a new documentary to be broadcast tonight on RT One and RTE Player.
In an investigation conducted by RT , in association with the Irish Mail on Sunday, reporter Anne Sheridan examines the Catholic Church's handling of allegations against the former Bishop of Galway, Eamonn Casey, who died in 2017. Bishop Casey's Buried Secrets includes an interview with one of Bishop Casey's accusers, his niece, Patricia Donovan. Speaking for the first time on camera, she claims that he first raped her at the age of five and that the sexual abuse continued for years.
Ian Elliott, the former CEO of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Irish Catholic Church, who has direct knowledge of Patricia Donovan's complaint against Bishop Casey, tells the RT / Irish Mail on Sunday investigation that he found her account of what she experienced entirely credible , describing Bishop Casey as, on balance of probabilities, an offender, a sexual predator. The fact of the matter is that individuals have come forward and spoken about numerous sexual activities, some consensual, others not. Many involved very young people. That is wrong and there is no justification for that, and it should have been stopped Those that have been distressed and hurt should be helped and supported by the Church. That is a major priority.
Patricia Donovan tells the documentary: Some of the things he did to me, and where he did them The horror of being raped by him when I was five, the violence. And it just carried on in that vein He had no fear of being caught. He thought he could do what he liked, when he liked, how he liked He was almost, like, incensed that I would dare fight against him, that I would dare try and hurt him, I would dare try and stop him It didn't make any difference.
Pictured above: Ian Elliott, former CEO of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Irish Catholic Church
In 2019, Galway Diocese informed reporter Anne Sheridan that it had received just one allegation of child sexual abuse against Bishop Eamonn Casey. It has since confirmed that, in fact, it had records at that time of five people who had complained of childhood sexual abuse against Bishop Casey. These independent accusations relate to alleged events in every Irish diocese where Bishop Casey worked.
Bishop Casey's Buried Secrets also reveals how the Limerick Diocese paid over 100,000 in settlement to one of Bishop Casey's accusers after Casey's death. The current Bishop of Limerick, Dr Brendan Leahy, who has access to documents relating to complaints made in his diocese says: I express deep sorrow and regret to anyone who has been wounded by clerical abuse, including the people referred to in this documentary. They deserve our respect, belief and support. Without commenting on any specific allegation, I have no reason to disbelieve any of the allegations made.
In an exceptional public statement issued to the documentary, the Vatican confirms, for the first time, that Bishop Casey was formally removed from public ministry in 2007, following allegations which, RT has established, included his niece Patricia Donovan's complaint of child sexual abuse. That restriction continued for the last ten years of his but life but was never publicly disclosed in Bishop Casey's lifetime.
The RT documentary has also discovered evidence that Bishop Casey violated the Vatican's sanctions on several occasions, presenting himself in public as a priest in good standing across several years. Galway Diocese has confirmed this, but stated that the late Bishop Martin Drennan, who was responsible for policing the restrictions, reprimanded Dr Casey whenever he was made aware of such breaches.
In early 2006, the Irish Bishops announced that Eamonn Casey was moving back to Ireland from England to retire. By this stage, the Vatican had now received at least two allegations of child sexual abuse against Bishop Casey. Although the DPP decided not to prosecute him, Church investigations were ongoing.
After repeated requests for information, the Vatican has now issued an exceptional statement to RT , confirming that, by 2006, following unspecified allegations , Bishop Casey had been requested not to publicly exercise the ministry and that this was reiterated formally a year later. The statement also revealed that He was never reinstated in spite of insistence from him and on his behalf and regardless of the outcome of the civil procedures. When RT requested clarification from Archbishop Charles Scicluna, the President of the Vatican department responsible for handling complaints of child sexual abuse, he replied that: Cases concerning Bishops are reserved to the Holy Father personally and only the Secretariat of State would be in a position to share information.
Bishop Casey consistently denied all the allegations of child sexual abuse made against him. Although all the complaints were reported to An Garda S och na, he was never
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