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THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT has decided to deport an Irish priest who was convicted last year of sexually abusing a young girl, the interior ministry said.
The Irish-born priest, John O’Reilly, was sentenced to four years’ probation in November for repeatedly molesting the girl from the time she was five.
The abuse took place from 2010 to 2012 at an exclusive school where O’Reilly was the spiritual advisor at the time.
The interior ministry said it was revoking O’Reilly’s permanent residency and that he would have to leave the country after completing his sentence in 2018.
The decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court.
O’Reilly, 69, was once an influential figure in Chile as the local head of the Catholic Church’s ultra-conservative Legion of Christ order.
He arrived in Chile in 1984 and was granted citizenship in 2008 — but had it revoked in March by Congress.
The Legion of Christ has been beset by accusations of sexual abuse.
The order’s founder, Mexican-born Marcial Maciel, stepped down in 2005 amid allegations of pedophilia and fathering several children. He died in 2008.
- © AFP 2015.
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Nothing to do with mass immigration
@Marg FitzGerald: all migrants are offered vaccinations as appropriate from their healthcare provider
@LittleBee:
Even the one that enter illegally?
@➕The Gray➕:
*ones
@Marg FitzGerald: Trust is ultimately what it’s all about.
@➕The Gray➕: yes
http://www.hpsc.ie/guidance
@LittleBee: sorry that link doesn’t work be suse it’s a pdf but if you pop it into Google you can read the entire infectious disease protocol for migrants
@LittleBee:
Even the one that are never caught?
Thanks science denying numpties! Blood on your hands.
@GrahamMManning: Despite agreeing with your sentiment, that kind of phrasing isn’t at all going to help them become more open to vaccination, in fact I’d say it would do the opposite.
@Diarmuid Hunt: agreed but at this point (ur not local nite?) do you really need anyone adopting standards views re this?
@GrahamMManning: are scientific studies the same as medical studies?
Anti vax types are morons.
Refugees , thanks
have your say