Ireland: Ferns priest sentenced to four years after pleading guilty to indecent assault
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
priest of the Diocese of Ferns
Organization
Diocese of Ferns
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Children of the diocese, reached through the priesthood the Ferns Report was established to examine.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
Evidence structure
Proceedings
1998-03-25 · guilty plea and sentence
Wexford Circuit Court, Ireland. Fr Colm Collins pleaded guilty on 25 March 1998 at Wexford Circuit Court to four counts of indecent assault and one of gross indecency, and was sentenced to four years on each count to run concurrently. He was released after one year on grounds of ill health. The conviction is recorded in the Ferns Report.
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 conviction, plea and sentence.
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- 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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