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	School Refused Paedophile Film Request By Stephen Rogers One in Four [Ireland] October 15, 2006 http://www.oneinfour.org/news/news2006/filmreq/ A Dublin school featured in a documentary on paedophile former priest Oliver O'Grady, expressly refused permission for the footage to be included. Now the unnamed school has had to tell parents it will be broadcast to thousands on cinema screens across America this evening. 'Deliver Us From Evil', written by US producer Amy Berg contains accounts from O'Grady and a number of his victims, describing terrible crimes he inflicted on up to 25 children in his trust over almost 20 years. In it, he talks about how he still gets aroused when he sees children in their underwear. He says this as he walks through a park full of playing children and he even pauses to watch them. Seconds earlier the film features footage shot in a Dublin school, footage which the Irish National Teachers' Organisation has claimed the filmmakers did not have permission for. John Carr, general secretary of the INTO said in September 2004, a producer sought permission from the school to take footage of the children at play for a documentary on the integration of international children. "Permission was granted for a very limited amount of filming of children at play in the school yard during a break. In September 2006, the school received a phone call from an American film producer seeking permission from the school to use the 2004 footage of the children in the film "Deliver Us From Evil". This was refused categorically by the school." He said the school had asked not to be identified. "They have notified parents today and feel that naming the school will create unnecessary hardship and concern for parents and children at this very difficult time." Film creator, Amy Berg told an RTÉ radio show: "When in Ireland we hired an Irish production crew to handle local logistics and they assured us they had all the clearance necessary. We were allowed into the school by the principal to shoot B-roll for the film." However, Nick McCarthy, an Irishman involved in the shooting of scenes here said: "We filmed the school. The school knew it was a documentary. We were not going to identify the school. It was simply background. No people were to be involved whatsoever. I made it clear to Amy that she cannot identify anyone." Colm O'Gorman, criticised the film crew's actions saying they bordered on criminal. "The part that disturbs me the most is that a filmmaker and camera crew would take an offender like Oliver O'Grady who clearly is a high risk to children to a playground," he said. "It is grossly, grossly irresponsible and deeply disturbing. He may well be a fixating paedophile. To allow him to be aroused while looking at children is to expose those children to risk and is boarding on criminal in my view. It was abusive of the children."
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