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	Suicide Victims Parents Say Bishop Should Go By Barry Duggan Irish Independent December 4, 2009 http://www.independent.ie/national-news/suicide-victims-parents--say-bishop-should-go-1964068.html IRELAND--THE parents of a clerical sex abuse victim who took his own life have repeated their call for the Bishop of Limerick to resign. Peter McCloskey (37) died in 2006 after repeated attempts to seek redress from Dr Donal Murray and the Limerick diocese following the sexual abuse he suffered as an altar boy in the early 1980s. He was repeatedly raped by deceased priest, Fr Denis Daly in the Caherdavin parish between 1980 and 1981. Mr McCloskey reported the matter to the bishop and his family in 2002, but tragically died by suicide four years later. Last night, Peter McCloskey's parents, Aidan and Mary and his brother and sister, Joseph and Aida, called for the resignation of Dr Murray. Focus They said he "should stand aside and be subject to the discipline he, and his fellow bishops, impose on all priests". They claim that when Peter attempted to take up his case with the Limerick diocese, he was met with a "wall of silence and bully-boy" tactics behind closed doors from the bishop's advisors. Peter's father, mother, brother and sister claimed the cover-up of clerical child sex abuse "is endemic and country-wide in the Catholic Church". Their comments came as Peter's former wife, Cathy and her children insisted that Dr Murray be allowed to stay on. Since Peter's death, Cathy said she and her teenage daughters have received constant support from Dr Murray. Cathy asked that the children be allowed to remember their father privately. "My and Peter's children are extremely traumatised by the publicity that their dad's death is receiving in recent days. "They are all secondary school girls who should be allowed live their lives without the focus of the national and worldwide media on them."
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