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Fri 11 Nov 2009Deliberate policy of ensuring knowledge of abuse restricted
ARCHBISHOP DERMOT RYAN:ARCHBISHOP DERMOT Ryan handled complaints badly, never reported knowledge of abuse to the Garda and failed to properly investigate complaints against at least six priests, the report states.
The report accuses Dr Ryan of having a deliberate policy of ensuring that knowledge of problems was as restricted as possible. As problems emerged, he got different people to deal with them, and this resulted in a "disastrous lack of co-ordination". It dismisses the notion that Dr Ryan or any of the other three archbishops during the period 1975-2004 could have been ignorant of the problem of child sexual abuse by clerics.
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