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	Innocent Priest Prays for Accuser By Breda Heffernan Irish Independent [Ireland] June 9, 2007 http://www.independent.ie/national-news/innocent-priest-prays-for-accuser-695077.html#mainColumn The innocent priest who was at the centre of false allegations that he sexually abused a young boy has prayed for mercy for his accuser. Friends of the priest, who works in a Dublin parish, say he was left "totally devastated" by the allegation, and criticised the four-year wait before his name was cleared. Paul Anderson (34) from Crumlin Park, Crumlin, Dublin, and formerly of the Iveagh Trust Flats, New Bride Street, Dublin, was convicted earlier this week of making false allegations against the priest. Anderson had claimed that he was buggered by the Dublin priest more than 25 years ago while receiving First Holy Communion tuition. Yesterday a friend of the priest said in the current climate of clerical sex abuse cases, innocent members of the clergy are "easy targets".
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