IRELAND
The Irish Times
KITTY HOLLAND and PATSY McGARRY
THE CATHOLIC primate, Cardinal Seán Brady, has said parents of children he knew in 1975 had been abused by Fr Brendan Smyth should have been told.
“I regret very much that they weren’t, and obviously if we were in the same situation now we would insist they be informed,” he said yesterday.
Were it now, he would make it “absolutely certain” that parents were informed.
“It would be a matter of insisting that somebody should do it because the parents have a right to know, and obviously the fact that they weren’t informed was a great source of pain and further traumatisation to these children.”
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