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	Priest's Victim to Tell of Years of Sex Abuse By Charlie Mallon The Herald December 8, 2009 http://www.herald.ie/national-news/courts/priests-victim-to-tell-of-years-of-sex-abuse-1967380.html Paedophile priest Thomas Naughton, one of those at the centre of the Murphy Report on child sexual abuse, is to appear in court again. He was due to face Bray Circuit Court in Co Wicklow today for sentencing on five counts of assault on an altar boy more almost 25 years ago. He has pleaded guilty to the charges of abuse against the boy when he was based at Valleymount Parish, Enniskerry. The offences took place between 1982 and 1984 when the boy was aged between seven and nine. The victim, now in his thirties spent many years in England. It is understood that he is expected to submit an account of his journey through life with the burden of the abuse he suffered as a child. The details of the case are to be outlined by the investigating officer Det Garda Fergal O'Connor. Naughton, who is under the care of his Order, Kiltegan Fathers, is currently at the centre of the row over the role of Bishop Donal Murray in dealing with the priest's trail of abuse. Naughton sexually abused children throughout the 1980s across three parishes in the Dublin Archdiocese, which paid out out between ˆ300,000 and ˆ400,000 to another victim, Mervyn Rundle. The priest was convicted in 1998, but complaints were made in 1983 by parishioners in Valleymount, Co Wicklow before he was transferred to Donnycarney. Naughton was then moved to Ringsend where he abused at least two boys. He was given a three-year jail sentence, reduced by six months on appeal. Bishop Murray's failure to investigate him fully has been described by Judge Yvonne Murphy as "inexcusable" and its the key issue behind calls for his resignation. Contact: cmallon@herald.ie
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