Henry Moloney’s activities caused a crisis in Christ the King College in the city of Bo
In those early years at Christ the King he was an altar boy and served Masses said by Moloney. The priest would fondle him, sometimes in public, even in class. John had no idea what was going on and, though no other priest did these things to him, he thought Moloney was “being playful”. It was “quite subtle”, he said.
This prompted a crisis at the college when senior student boarders took action one night. Graffiti and lewd drawings referring to Moloney and his activities began to appear on walls and buildings around the college campus. It caused a scandal. Bishop Joseph Henry Ganda of the local diocese, Kenema, was contacted by some parents to mediate and it was agreed the 12 senior boys would be allowed attend the college as day pupils to finish their exams.
Moloney’s activities were “quite rife ... and well known in the school,” he said. He didn’t know whether other teachers there knew about Moloney’s activities “but it was not a secret among the students”. On September 22nd, 2010, just over 18 months after that conviction, he joined the online Catholic Answers Forum blog as an observing member. At the time he was out of ministry and living at the Spiritans’ Kimmage Manor in Dublin in 2011.
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