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	Few of the Perverts Were Ever Convicted By Tom Brady Irish Independent May 21, 2009 http://www.independent.ie/national-news/few-of-the-perverts-were-ever-convicted-1746417.html ONLY a handful of those accused of child sex abuse have been charged and convicted of their crimes. And the number will not increase as a result of the publication of yesterday's report, which does not name alleged offenders. However, some of those punished by the courts became involved in high-profile cases. Among them was Father Ivan Payne, who had been a chaplain at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin. He was sent for psychiatric treatment in 1981 after abusing Andrew Madden at Cabra. He was appointed to Sutton parish in 1982 and seen by a psychiatrist again in 1991 and 1994. But he continued to serve as a priest until 1995, although two years earlier he paid €30,000 in compensation to Mr Madden. In 1998 he was convicted of 13 sample charges of sexual assault against nine boys and served over four years in jail. Father Thomas Naughton was also jailed in 1998 and given three years imprisonment for the abuse of altar boy Mervyn Rundle while serving in Donnycarney parish in Dublin. Father Paul McGennis, who admitted sexually assaulting two young girls at a parochial house in Co Wicklow, received two consecutive nine-month sentences. But on appeal, the 18-month sentence was halved. The incidents took place between 1977 and 1979 but he continued to serve as a priest until 1997, when he was in Edenmore parish in Dublin. James Kelly, otherwise known as Brother Ambrose, was jailed for 36 years for a 12-year reign of sexual abuse at the Lota School, run by the Brothers of Charity, in Cork. He was sentenced in 1999 after pleading guilty to 18 sample counts of abusing children in the 1950s and 1960s. The following year he was jailed for three years for abusing boys at the Holy Family school in Galway city. However, in 2002 the 76-year-old Brother was freed from prison and sent to an institution for therapy before being transferred to an unnamed location.
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