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Wed 03 Mar 2010Vatican should pay, says O'Gorman
THE VATICAN should meet the cost of the compensation and legal bills emanating from clerical child sex abuse claims in the diocese of Ferns rather than parishioners, Colm O’Gorman, founder of victims group One in Four has said.
Mr O’Gorman, who was sexually abused by Fr Seán Fortune and later sued the diocese of Ferns in a move that helped bring the issue of clerical sex abuse into the public domain, strongly criticised a call yesterday by Bishop of Ferns Dr Denis Brennan for parishioners to help pay the diocese legal bills.
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