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Mon 01 Jan 2009Parents say Bishop Magee can no longer be trusted
BISHOP OF Cloyne John Magee can no longer be trusted to handle allegations of clerical child sexual abuse and should step down, according to the parents of a young woman who alleges that she was sexually abused for several years by a priest in the diocese.
The couple said they had no wish to engage in anything that would damage the Catholic Church but they believed people could no longer trust Dr Magee to handle any complaints of clerical child sexual abuse given the manner in which he had dealt with their daughter’s complaint.
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