AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE McCARTHY July 12, 2013
TWO sisters sat in a court this week and silently raged at the paedophile priest who molested them more than five decades ago, and the Church that failed to stop him.
“When his name’s said I’ve got this picture in my mind from all those years ago,” said one of the sisters about Denis McAlinden.
“I just wish they’d call him mongrel.”
The other sister, whose daughters were also victims of McAlinden, described the “harrowing” experience of learning this week that Maitland-Newcastle Monsignor Patrick Cotter wrote to Bishop Leo Clarke in 1976 about McAlinden’s “inclinations . . . towards the little ones”.
Her daughters were molested by the priest in the 1980s.
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