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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Wexford, Ireland · 1998

Ireland: Ferns priest sentenced to four years after pleading guilty to indecent assault

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest of the Diocese of Ferns

Organization

Diocese of Ferns

Spiritual nexus

Children of the diocese, reached through the priesthood the Ferns Report was established to examine.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 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

Primary 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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