IRELAND
RTE News
A west African man who claims he was abused by an Irish missionary priest today welcomed the filing by the priest’s order of a defence in a High Court civil action arising from the allegations.
Mr Elvis Kuteh began his lawsuit in January 2013, claiming that Henry Moloney had sexually abused him while he was a boarder at a school run by the Spiritan order in Sierra Leone in the late 1970s.
He is suing the Spiritans for damages.
The defence filed late last week was not opened in court but it is understood the order denies all of Mr Kuteh’s claims.
Mr Kuteh, a 50-year-old psychiatric nurse from Sierra Leone, travelled from his home in London to Dublin to pursue his action against the order.
It is believed to be the first time a litigant alleging clerical child sexual abuse in Africa has sued in the Irish courts.
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