FLORIDA
CBS 12
BY AL PEFLEY MONDAY, JANUARY 25TH 2016
WEST PALM BEACH (CBS12) — A priest from West Palm Beach says the Catholic Church has tried to force him out after he blew the whistle about a pedophile priest.
Father John Gallagher is breaking his silence.
“The Bishop’s responsibility is to take care of his priests and that’s not happening. I have been ostracized,” said Fr. John Gallagher.
Father John Gallagher was about to be named pastor at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in suburban West Palm Beach last January, when he learned one of his priests, Jose Palimatton, had shown child pornography to a teenage boy.
He reported it to the Diocese of Palm Beach. But he says they didn’t want to hear it.
“When I made the initial phone call to the Diocese, I was told we are used to this, we normally put people like this on an airplane,” Gallagher said.
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