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Mon 03 Mar 2010Cardinal says he will not resign over Smyth abuse case
THE CATHOLIC primate Cardinal Seán Brady has said he does not intend to resign following weekend revelations about his involvement in a 1975 canonical inquiry into child sex abuser Fr Brendan Smyth, about whom he did not inform gardaí.
Twenty years later, Smyth pleaded guilty to 74 charges of sexually abusing children between 1958 and 1993. Sentenced to seven years in prison, Smyth (70) died in jail in 1997.
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