Sunday Business Post
March 21, 2010
http://www.sbpost.ie/breakingnews/ireland/eyojauidkfgb/
IRELAND -- Another bishop has admitted being involved in an investigation into clerical abuse claims, during which victims were made to sign oaths of secrecy.
It has emerged that the Bishop of Clogher was involved in an internal Church investigation into clerical sex abuse allegations during which children and their parents were made to sign oaths of non-disclosure.
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In a statement to the Sunday Business Post, Bishop Joseph Duffy admitted he did not report the allegations to the Gardai when he first became aware of them in 1989.
It follows the recent revelation that Cardinal Seán Brady was present at meetings in the 1970s where two teen victims of Fr Brendan Smyth were made to sign vows of secrecy.
The pope makes no reference to church cover-ups in his letter, which has been criticised by survivors' groups as not going far enough.
Meanwhile it has been reported today that an all-Ireland diocese-by-diocese audit of the handling of abuse allegations, to be carried out by the Church-funded National Board for Safeguarding Children, will begin after Easter.
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