Alleged Victims of Priest Outraged by Prison Release

San Francisco Chronicle
March 28, 2013

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/03/28/alleged-victims-of-priest-outraged-by-prison-release/

Patrick McCabe, an elderly retired priest, has been living in a home in Alameda before his arrest. (Lance Iversen/The Chronicle)

The news that confessed pedophile priest Patrick Joseph McCabe had been released early from an Irish prison shook Greg Horne, who said the priest abused him while he was a student at St. Bernard’s Catholic School Church in Eureka from 1983 to 1985.

“Take every human emotion you can have, put it in a blender and that’s how I feel,” said Horne, a 41-year-old juvenile corrections officer who lives in McKinleyville (Humboldt County).

A judge in Ireland released the 77-year-old McCabe over the weekend, three months before the end of a two-year sentence. He cited McCabe’s advanced age and his confession that he had assaulted two boys in Ireland in the 1970s. This was before he was sent to the U.S., where he worked at churches in Eureka, Guerneville and Sacramento.

To read more about the case against McCabe, who settled in Alameda and lived there until his 2010 arrest, click here.