Paraclete Report

Paraclete Report

This is a damning report by Fr Tom Doyle concerning the 'treatment' of clergy sex abusers by Church run facilities in America, UK and Ireland.

There is an horrendous case of an Irish Priest re-assigned to parishes after several treatment programmes.

A passing reference is made to the St John of God treatment centre in Dublin where this priest was treated twice and returned to ministry.  I once visited this place.  It was a lovely old country house in the midst of rolling fields but adjacent to a new built housing estate.  Offenders had an array of treatment facilities, and ambled in leafy glades whilst not far from there patients (victims of clergy abusers) were in the lock up wards of the same St John of God order tanked up to the eyeballs with drugs.  The contrast was obscene.  I had to promise I would never reveal the location of the facility so assume the residents in the housing estate never got to discover there were sex offenders getting off the Dublin buses at their doorsteps to visit as outpatients for treatment. Maybe we should now demand what sort of 'record' the Stroud UK centre & The St John of God centre actually had. and how much risk THEY put children in by recommending return to ministry DESPITE re-abusing and return to treatment.