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Mon 11 Nov 2009Call for offenders to be removed from duties
THE GRANADA Institute has welcomed the findings of the Murphy report and said no priest found to have abused a child should ever return to pastoral duties.
“Current practice dictates that in the case of a priest we would recommend that the priest be removed from ministry on a permanent basis, that he does not have any unsupervised contact with children or vulnerable adults and that he undergo an appropriate course of psychotherapeutic treatment,” Dr Joseph Duffy, director of clinical services at the Granada Institute – a sex offender treatment clinic in Dublin – said yesterday.
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