Probe ‘paedophile Storm’ Bishop John Kirby

By Claire Gorman
The Sun
October 9, 2012

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/irishsun/irishsunnews/4578955/Probe-paedophile-storm-bishop-John-Kirby.html

SHAMED bishop John Kirby must be prosecuted, furious abuse survivors declared last night.

The call came after reports the bishop was aware a priest he had moved after allegations of child sex abuse went on to target children in a new parish.

Last month he had insisted the cleric did not assault children in the new parish he switched him to.

Abuse survivor Christine Buckley, below, said: “Bishop Kirby needs to be prosecuted by the gardai because he has broken the law.

“We haven’t had one yet sent to prison who knew that children were being raped.

“A teacher in a classroom can lose her job if she doesn’t report a suspicion while a bishop can hold on to his mitre without any prosecution.”

Bishop Kirby yesterday issued a statement calling a new Irish Times report “incorrect”. He said: “I am not aware of an acknowledgement by ‘Priest A’ that he abused any child subsequent to October 1990, the date when I first learned of his sexual abuse of a child.”

Last month the bishop claimed to believe paedophilia was “a friendship that crossed a boundary line”.