IRELAND
BBC News
A victim of Ireland’s most notorious paedophile priest has said the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, should resign.
Brendan Boland was responding to a BBC This World programme which found Cardinal Brady failed to pass details of sex abuse to police or parents.
It found that in 1975, Cardinal Brady had the names and address of children being abused by Fr Brendan Smyth.
Smyth, a paedophile, continued to attack children for a further 13 years.
Cardinal Brady claimed the BBC exaggerated his authority at that time. He said he had “absolutely no authority over Smyth” and had felt betrayed that those in the Church who had the power to stop Smyth did not do so.
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