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Fri 11 Nov 2009Many auxiliaries aware of complaints
THE AUXILIARY BISHOPS:MANY OF the auxiliary bishops of Dublin were aware of complaints of child sexual abuse, but assignments of priests to parishes were "often made without any reference to child sexual abuse issues", the report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin found.
Bishop James Kavanagh, Bishop Dermot O'Mahony, Bishop Laurence Forristal, Bishop Donal Murray and Bishop Brendan Comiskey were aware for many years of complaints and/or suspicions of clerical sexual abuse in the archdiocese, the report notes.
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