By John Cooney Shane Phelan and Tom Brady
Tuesday March 09 2010
A NOTORIOUS paedophile priest named in the Murphy report on clerical sex abuse has spoken out to dispute its findings.
Bill Carney (60) made the comments after being tracked down by the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ TV programme while he was taking a sun holiday in the Canary Islands.
Carney, who was named as one of the worst serial offenders in the Murphy report, pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assaulting altar boys in 1983.
He was kicked out by the Catholic Church in 1992 after being found guilty under canon law of child sex abuse.
Carney later moved to the UK and settled in St Andrews in Scotland, where he got married.
The Murphy report stated that there were complaints or suspicions against him in respect of 32 named individuals.
In a ‘Panorama’ programme, being broadcast this evening, Carney disputes these findings.
“I have read the Murphy report six or seven times,” he told reporter Olenka Frenkiel.
“And I would dispute all of it except that I pleaded guilty to two charges in 1983 and the matter was dealt with by the court and I was sentenced.
“It is now 26 years later and I continue to get my life back together one day at a time and that is all I have to say.”
In the programme he is confronted with the fact that Paul Dwyer, one of his alleged victims, committed suicide in 2004, not long after making a complaint to gardai.
“I’ve no comment to make,” he said in response to those allegations.
He also denies being responsible for any instance of abuse since his conviction.
“I haven’t done that in 26 years and I have had no inclination.”
Pyschopathic
He refused to confirm or deny whether he abused other children before the 1983 case.
The Murphy report quoted a psychiatric assessment diagnosing Carney as suffering from a “psychopathic personality disorder”, which it warned must still pose some risk to children. Complaints against Carney were diverted away from gardai to the late Bishop James Kavanagh, who, it is claimed, had a “soft spot” for him.
In 1992, Cardinal Desmond Connell, then Archbishop of Dublin, removed Carney from the priesthood after a canonical secret trial, and later paid him £30,000 to leave his Dublin parish house.
Carney, was married in 2004 after moving to Britain, where he first lived in Cheltenham, England.
For the past 10 years he has lived in St Andrews, where he runs a family-friendly guest house, and enjoys the local golf club facilities.
Despite the findings of the Murphy report, the Irish Independent has established he is not currently being sought by gardai and there is no warrant for his arrest.
A number of alleged victims were interviewed by gardai and files were sent to the DPP but no prosecutions were brought.
In the case of Mr Dwyer’s complaint, the DPP did not proceed with a case due to insufficient evidence.
His mother Bridie later attempted to get access to the garda file on the case, but was refused on the grounds of confidentiality.
In Britain, the Home Office said Carney was not on the Sex Offenders Register because his admission of guilt in Ireland pre-dated the enacting of the UK register.
– John Cooney Shane Phelan and Tom Brady
Irish Independent
Hi, what kind of turnout are u expecting for the march on the 24th.? My sister and I will be there.
Some years ago, the American Gay Federation produced a lengthy statement on the relationship between paedophile crime and gay orientation.
The report stated clearly that roughly 30% of paedophile crime was committed by gay men.
As gays only account for 0.5% of population, then the link is clear.
The church & their clerics were considered by many (long before the current spate of news on child abuse), to be an attractive career for gay men. In this respect, there is a fundamental unsoundness to the nature of an organisation that attracts such people and of course, worse again, an organisation which condones, aids and abets such crime.
As information emerges and these causative links are firmly established in the public mind as they have never been before, the end of the church is inevitable. In the collapse of empires, a key characteristic is that they tumble inwards in a very short time, days even.
Rioting, looting and destruction of empire symbols and property follow. There is a even a that gold bullion taken from the Jews is in fact stored in the Vatican vaults and not in fact in Switzerland.
Apparently the ‘religious orders’ are re-offering, as way of recompense, playing fields which belong (or are used by) local community and youth groups; and sites on which there are special schools (for want of a better word) – or in other words these cults want to deprive local community & youth groups and children attending special schools in order to mete out justice to their victims !!
As to the audit of the assets held by those orders investigated by Justice Ryan well how much “mental reservation” was applied to that audit. In other words “How much money have they smuggled out of the country and hidden away in off shore accounts. Have they used the Vatican’s diplomatic post at the office of the Papal Nuncio to ship out money?. Am I paranoid? I have every reason to be given the recent developments in Regunsberg. That is what I mean that we must think the unthinkable of these people.
Here follows an extract of my shopping list on the 24th.(1) Compensation at least on par with the High Court.(2) A pension for every one of us who went through the Gulags of Ireland. Access to an education fund expedited in a timely fashion. Properties to be handed over to be used to alleviate and help our brothers and sisters in their time of need. After all we earned that money for you and those properties are rightly ours. You are also to finance the running of these houses by repaying us that stolen tax payers money which should have been used to educate, and clothe and feed us but which you put into your order to buy more properties both here in Ireland and in Rome. That was only part of my shopping list. You are also to close down and leave Ireland.
Well then the things that are unthinkable are the things we should think. What went on in Regensburg during the tenure of The Brothers Ratzinger. A few slaps to the face?. That’s what he says, but something inside all of us feels that this is only part of the truth as we have witnessed from our Irish clerics. It,s getting close to the top, too close some would say. Meanwhile Holland explodes in a wave of revelations and then Austria. The latest defence of the Irish Bishops is “We are 5% bad while all you others are 95% bad”. And so it goes on. This is why the march on the 24th of March is so pivotal, so far we have been re-active now we must change that to pro-active otherwise we are to be left on the side lines as mere commentators to our own fate.
Get this guy
A SENIOR BISHOP HAS ATTACKED THE MEDIA FOR SINGLING OUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR COVERING-UP PAEDOPHILE PRIESTS WHEN 95%OF ABUSE HAPPENS IN FAMILIES.
BISHOP CHRISTOPHER JONES ALSO SAYS ‘WHY THIS HUGE ISOLATION OF THE CHURCH AND THE FOCUS ON COVER-UP IN THE CHURCH WHEN IT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR CENTURIES’
HE ALSO WENT ON TO SAY
‘IT IS ONLY NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE VICTIMS HAVE BEEN GIVEN THEIR VOICE’
AND ADDED
95% OF ABUSE OUT THERE IS IN THE FAMILIES,COMMUNITIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS’
CHRISTY
ps Thanks a lot bish for my voice and are you on the same planet as us.
PADDY
THEY NEED BOTTLE TO DO THAT PADDY, THEY DON’T HAVE IT.
MAYBE THE HSE OR MR COWEN CAN ANSWER, BUT THEY NEED THE WILL TO ANSWER AND THEY DON’T HAVE IT.
Christy
Perhaps some of the so call “representative groups” can answer this question? This is a serious question and requires an immediate answer. Paddy.
Someone!
Why did my sister have to pay to stay in a house funded by the state, for survivors going to the Redress Board????
Christy
MURPHY COMMISSION
‘There was a culture of secrecy in the archdiocese’
WRONG SAYS Mgr ALEX STENSON,
‘
THERE WAS NO SUCH THING WHAT THERE WAS,WAS A CHRISTIAN CULTURE OF CONFIDENTIALITY AND RESPECT FOR PEOPLES REPUTATIONS’
SO YOU DON’T TELL ABOUT THE RAPE OF CHILDREN IS THAT RIGHT Mgr ALEX STENSON?????.
Christy
Typical psychopath response- no conscience, no emotion resulting from Catholic cult training.
Well, I won’t be holidaying in St Andrews in any family friendly guesthouses.
The priest who did a runner from Drogheda also went to Scotland before the Gardai arrested him.