Fresh allegations have emerged against priests from the Spiritan religous congregation while they were in ministry in Africa.
A report in to-day's Irish Times includes details of child abuse allegations against a former Rockwell College priest Fr. Henry Moloney arising from his time in Bo, Sierra Leone`where he served from
1973 to 1979 .
Prior to this he worked at St. Mary's Templeogue College Dublin and in 2000 and 2009 was sentanced for abusing four boys while there.
On his return from Sierre Leone he was appointed to Rockwell College and remained there for sixteen years before he was removed from the ministry.
It has also emerged that he had access to the internet while under supervision at the congregation's Kimmage Manor House, where he lives, and in 2010 posted enteries on a blog.
Meanwhile a separate a detailed account is given of alleged abuse of seminarians at Rockwell College by then novitiate Director Fr. Christopher Meagher, now deceased. These allegations were made by a novitiate who attended the college from 1954 – 1957 in preparation for the priesthood. He has since had a distinguished international career and he recalled Meagher as violent, predatory and dangerous.
A spokesman for the order expressed profound regret at the allegations and said the content of the new reports were consistent with complaints received by them against individual priests including Fr. Meagher.
