IRELAND
9 News (Australia)
20:51 AEDT Wed May 2 2012
Shawn Pogatchnik
The leader of Ireland’s four million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, faced renewed pressure to resign on Wednesday after a BBC documentary accused him of helping to cover up child abuse committed by a notorious pedophile priest in the 1970s.
Brady already has admitted he took written testimony in 1975 from two abused teenage boys and gave the report to his bishop, not the police.
The revelations became public after victims sued Brady and the church for damages and won confidential settlements.
One of those now-adult children, Brendan Boland, told the BBC he also alerted Brady to five other children being abused by the same priest, but Brady didn’t tell their parents of the danger.
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