Ferns Report highlights 100 cases

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From RTE:
The report of the Ferns Inquiry says that it identified more than 100 allegations of child sexual abuse, made between 1962 and 2002, against 21 priests.

Six of the priests had died before any allegations of abuse were made against them.

The report concludes that 'both Bishop Herlihy and Bishop Comiskey placed the interests of individual priests ahead of those of the community in which they served'.

It says the nature of the response by the Church authorities in the Diocese of Ferns to allegations of child sexual abuse by priests operating under the ageis of that diocese has varied over the past 40 years.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/1025/ferns.html