Findings relate mostly to priests at Belvedere College in Dublin, Crescent College in Limerick and Clongowes Wood College in Kildare
Findings relate mainly to priests at Belvedere College in Dublin, Crescent College in Limerick and Clongowes Wood College in KildareChild sexual abuse complaints against 44 Jesuit priests were received by the congregation between 1945 and late last year, a newly published report has disclosed.
The findings are contained in a report published by the Society of Jesus and mainly related to three Jesuit schools, Belvedere College in Dublin, Crescent College in Limerick and Clongowes Wood College in Kildare. Nineteen separate complaints of sexual abuse, reported to have occurred at Belvedere College between the 1940s and 1990s, were received against seven Jesuits, excluding Fr Marmion. These complaints were received by the congregation between the 1990s and 2023.
Sexual abuse complaints were also received by the Jesuits against both late directors of St Declan’s Special School for children in Dublin, Fr Paul Andrews SJ and Fr Dermot Casey SJ.