IRELAND
Irish Independent
CONOR GALLAGHER – 08 JULY 2013
A FORMER priest who had been on the run in Brazil for almost a decade has been jailed for ten years for abusing 18 boys during the sixties, seventies and eighties.
Peter Kennedy (74), a former member of the Kiltegan Fathers order, committed the abuse across five different counties as he was moved from parish to parish.
In the early 2000s many of his victims began to come forward causing Kennedy to leave Ireland for Brazil.
He remained there for eight years before being deported to the UK in 2011. From there he was returned to Ireland to face these charges.
Kennedy was a missionary in Africa before serving in several parishes in Ireland. He would use his position as a priest to gain access to the boys and molest them.
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