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	Group: Abusive Irish Priests Sent to U.S. Times of the Internet December 31, 2009 http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/142018.html BOSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Roman Catholic leaders in Ireland "outsourced" priests accused of sexually molesting children to the United States, activists in Massachusetts say. BishopAccountability.org released a list of more than 60 priests Monday who it says were sent from Ireland to the United States and then accused of pedophile acts, The Boston Globe reported. Terence McKiernan, a member of the group, said Irish bishops dealt with the problem for decades the way the U.S. church did, by transferring them, or, as the group put it, the priests were "outsourced." The Murphy Report, recently released in Ireland, said the church covered up for pedophile priests for years. Four of five bishops accused in the report of covering up for such priests have resigned. "Unfortunately the places where they put them include our own backyard," the report concluded. "So the Irish crisis, basically, has become our crisis, too.'' McKiernan and other members of the group, at a news conference in front of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, called on Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen to release the names of all Irish clergy who moved to the United States after being accused of child molesting.
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