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	Paedophile Ex-Priest Is 'On His Way to Canada' Irish Independent October 16, 2006 http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1706688&issue_id=14769 Gardai believe paedophile ex-priest Oliver O'Grady has fled the country, possibly to France, and may be en route to Canada. One in Four founder, Colm O'Gorman, last night appealed to the Government to cooperate at European and international levels in exchanging information on the movements of sex offenders between national jurisdictions. The head of the child abuse victims' group also wants the Government to make the national sex offenders register more effective. Last week there was public outrage and alarm here when publicity surrounding an American television documentary showed pictures of him ogling young children in Dublin's Merrion Square and at an unnamed school. On the documentary, 'Deliver of Us from Evil', O'Grady (60) admitted he still gets sexually aroused at the sight of children and showed no remorse for abusing 25 children when he was a parish priest in California. Before his deportation to Ireland in 2001, he had spent seven years in prison for molesting two young brothers. Gardai say O'Grady was not on the sex offenders' register because his crimes committed in America predated his deportation to Ireland. Mr O'Gorman, who will be a candidate for the Progressive Democrats in Wexford in the next general election, said One in Four would make representations to the Justice Minister in the coming weeks. The Government needed to look at ways of sharing information with countries in Europe and elsewhere about convicted sex offenders in other jurisdictions. "The O'Grady case demonstrates a real need for a thorough examination of child protection legislation," he added. One in Four will also call on the Government to put the Oireacthas Joint Committee on Child Protection on a permanent footing. Last night, a spokesman for the Labour Party said the O'Grady case added to public anxieties and that it was a myth to believe a single register existed. Last Tuesday, the Oireachtas Committee on Child Protection was told by a senior garda that the Thurles-based Central Vetting Unit is a paper-based system without computer access to the national sex register in Dublin.
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