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Fr. Fortune's amazing career was reported as far away as Australia. We had a documentary, shown on our national news broadcaster. It is very dismaying and very serious. However, I could cite other sex abuse cases, including insitutional abuse, not drawn to public attention.

I unfortunately had the misfortune of knowing Fr. Sean Fortune personally...(and I covered his first court arraignments too.)...to think of the man makes my skin crawl.

As for institutional abuse going unreported. Certainly a lot of it didn't, but there are quite a few State institutions in Ireland now facing paying retrospective reparations to victims of horrid abuses.

All abuse, whether clerical or otherwise is outrageous. I think we are both agreed on that. And all those responsible should be purged from society.