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Fri 11 Nov 2009Family had to move to get away from priest

PARISHES:THE FATHER of one of William Carney’s victims said he had to move his family out of Ayrfield to get away from the then priest, the report records.

Appointed curate in the parish in 1977 and dismissed from the clerical state in 1992, Carney is described in the report as “one of the most serious serial abusers investigated by the commission”.