IRELAND
Irish Independent
PAEDOPHILE priests were allowed take children from national schools and abuse them, victims have claimed.
The startling new allegations about the priests' activities are set to be made at the promised Government inquiry into the handling of abuse cases in the Dublin archdiocese.
The claims are made as the Catholic Church continued to cope with the spate of sexual abuse revelations yesterday.
The One-in-Four organisation, which represents victims, said evidence exists of priests being able to use national schools "particularly in the inner city to target and abuse large numbers of children in the 1980s with apparent impunity".
One-in-Four director Colm O'Gorman said: "We believe evidence exists which if presented to the Inquiry will highlight enormous concern of both co-operation between offenders and their extremely high level of access to national schools which allowed them take children from school and abuse them."