Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic County Wexford, Ireland · 1990

Ireland (1990): Ferns priest given a suspended sentence for indecent and common assault

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest of the Diocese of Ferns

Organization

Diocese of Ferns

Archive classification

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A diocesan priest and a child of his parish.

Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

1990-01-01 · guilty plea; suspended sentence

Irish trial court (not named in the report). A priest of the Diocese of Ferns, recorded in the Ferns Report as Fr Doyle, pleaded guilty in 1990 to indecent assault and common assault and received a three-month suspended sentence.

Documented coercion mechanisms

priestly access to children of the diocese

Cited record

Sources

official commission finding commission conviction record The Ferns Report (Ireland, 2005), via the Internet Archive.: The commission report recording the plea and suspended sentence.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://archive.org/details/243711-2-complete-ferns-report-so-ireland Corpus classification: official-commission-finding; evidentiary role: commission-conviction-record. SHA-256 ea7eb94fdc5910180217f5828b74389f2ac9ada817cf8019adee5417c790701e
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