Religious order apologised for ‘11th hour’ disclosure of ‘serious allegation’
In a September 18th, 2009 letter, Fr Vincent Travers wrote to the Garda to report “a serious allegation of child sexual abuse” had emerged during a review of its files. “This allegation was not reported to the gardaí. In this case, we followed the legal advice given to us at the time,” he wrote.
A younger sister of the woman who reported the alleged abuse later came forward to allege she had also been sexually assaulted by the priest, when she was about 14 years of age. A report for HSE social workers said the man “accepts the substance of their complaints and says he will always feel bad about it”. The man “repeated again that he hates the person he was then, and accepts much of what they have said”.
A 2016 High Court judgment in a judicial review related to the case stated the assessment had concluded the man “had fully admitted what had transpired” with the two sisters “was wrong and should not have occurred”.Consequences of ‘reign of terror’ by Dominican principal at Newbridge College in Kildare recalledInternal emails from HSE social workers, seen by The Irish Times, also stated the former priest “admitted to sexual relations with a then teenage girl” during the interview.
After the alleged abuse was reported to the Dominicans the priest was referred to the Granada Institute, a since closed treatment centre for alleged child sex abusers.
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