IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Fri, Aug 9, 2013
A man who was abused as a child in Ferns diocese by the late Fr Seán Fortune has expressed his shock at discovering that the parochial house in Poulfour where children were abused by the priest is in use as a creche.
The man, who does not wish to be named, said he had visited the house on July 23rd last with photographer Kim Haughton, who is working on a project involving such places of abuse, and it was only then he discovered there was a creche on the premises.
It was, he said “a house of horrors”. At the scene that day, he “lost it. I really did. The priest who took over from Fortune in that parish refused to live there and they built a new one for him.”
He added: “Fortune is still there, if you know what I mean. He’s still hanging over the place like that house in the Psycho film, the house on the hill. You can see, you can smell him there. They should’ve knocked it. It’s so wrong. It’s not right.”
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