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  Children Deleted from Paedophile Film

By Stephen Rogers
One in Four [Ireland]
February 14, 2007

http://www.oneinfour.org/news/news2007/deliverus/

Shots of Dublin schoolchildren have been deleted from a Oscar-nominated documentary featuring an Irish paedophile former priest before it is shown at the Dublin Film Festival on Saturday.

Deliver Us From Evil details 20 years of abuse former cleric Oliver O'Grady inflicted on children in the United States.

The documentary's creator, Amy Berg, had included scenes filmed at a Dublin school without its permission and it had considered legal action against the filmmakers.

An Irishman involved in the shooting of the scenes has claimed the film's producer Amy Berg was warned not to show anything that would identify the school or its pupils.

Yesterday a spokeswoman for the film's distributors, Lionsgate, said the images have since been removed and there are no clips of the schoolchildren in the newer version. The unedited version was shown in cinemas in the US before the complaint was lodged.

Deliver Us From Evil is based around interviews with Oliver O'Grady in which he admits he is still a danger to young children and he still gets sexually aroused by them.

O'Grady, a Limerick native, moved to the US in 1971. He has admitted to molesting as many as 25 children in California.

 
 

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