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	Cloyne Report - Fr Baird RTE News July 13, 2011 http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0713/cloyne_baird.html He was a teacher in a boarding school and regularly invited students to his room, where they would drink until the early hours of the morning. There was one complaint of sexual abuse made against Fr Baird in 2002. The complaint came through a solicitor acting for a former student in the school. The student refused to report the matter to gardai and refused to take part in a church investigation into the matter. The priest denied the allegation but while the matter was being investigated he was suspended from his ministry and removed from the school. Fr Baird died in 2004, aged 44, after a serious illness. A civil case taken on behalf of the complainant was eventually settled by the diocese. The terms of the settlement remain confidential. The report finds that there was a credible allegation of child sexual abuse from the student and this was investigated by the diocese as well as it could have been. Bishop Magee restored Fr Baird's priestly facilities to him when it was obvious he was dying and this, the report says, was a humane decision as he could not then have been a threat to children.
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