IRELAND
Irish Independent
CONOR GALLAGHER – 09 JULY 2013
In some instances he threatened the boys with damnation if they reported what he did
A FORMER priest who had been on the run in Brazil for almost a decade has been jailed for 10 years for abusing 18 boys over three decades.
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.
On one occasion he told a boy that he was an “angel of God and God didn’t mind what he did”.
Some of the children went to their parents about the abuse but the situation was not reported to gardai or the church authorities. When one boy told his mother what had happened she slapped him and said “how dare you say that about a priest”.
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