Cardinal Brady should face criminal probe says Smyth child victim, Human Trafficking in Canada


articles:
- Church crisis: Cardinal Brady should face criminal probe says Smyth
child victim
- Abuse survivor: Without courage or integrity Cardinal Brady failed
and it is unforgivable
- In full: Cardinal Brady responds to allegations over role in abuse
inquiry
- Professor Perrin Appointed Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
(first book, Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human
Trafficking)


Church crisis: Cardinal Brady should face criminal probe says Smyth
child victim

By Independent.ie reporters

Friday May 04 2012

A WOMAN, who was sexually abused as a child by paedophile priest
Brendan Smyth, today called for a criminal investigation into the
actions of Cardinal Sean Brady.

American lawyer Helen McGonigle, (50) who now campaigns for survivors
of clerical sexual abuse, said the All Ireland Primate should resign
for not alerting other families to Smyth’s horrific catalogue of
abuse.

She was molested by Smyth in the late 1960s in Rhode Island, New York.

Speaking to BBC Radio Ulster today, Ms McGonigle said she was
"outraged" by Cardinal Brady's response to allegations in a BBC
documentary broadcast this week.

She said Cardinal Sean Brady's "duty as a human" was to protect
children and his failure to act properly on Brendan Boland's complaint
– when he named other five other children being abused - was
"unforgivable".

The Cardinal had shown "arrogance and insensitivity", Ms McGonigle
said.

She was just six-years-old and preparing for the sacrament of penance
when she was abused by Smyth, who led her from her classmates into the
sacristy of the church where he molested her....

Smyth was already known to have sexually molested children when he was
sent to the McGonigles' parish in the summer of 1965. Using his usual
modus operandi, he befriended the family and they bonded over a shared
Irish ancestry.

Speaking to the Irish Independent two years ago, Ms McGonigle, who is
an attorney living in Connecticut, said: "From 1967 until about 1970
he molested me. He was caught in my parish molesting children as early
as 1968....

While any intervention by Cardinal Brady in 1975 would have been too
late to save the children of East Greenwich, Ms McGonigle said many
others could have been protected....

She said Cardinal Brady must resign and he should be charged with
obstruction of justice.

"He sat on this knowledge for 35 years, from 1975 through to 2010, and
Brendan Smith continued to abuse children. It is only because of the
lawsuit one of his victims has brought that he has had to show his
hand."

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/church-crisis-cardinal-brady-should-face-criminal-probe-says-smyth-child-victim-3099251.html



Abuse survivor: Without courage or integrity Cardinal Brady failed and
it is unforgivable 5/3/12

.....Now an executive director of Amnesty International Ireland,
O’Gorman was not satisfied with the similar but weak defence offered
by Scicluna and Brady yesterday that back in 1975 Brady was only a
‘notary’ in the interviews.

“Authority is not needed to walk into a Garda station to report the
abuse and rape of children. It takes courage and a sense of moral
decency,” he said, adding that it was important to remember that Brady
was a highly-educated and qualified Canon lawyer at the time. He was
also 35-years-old.

Commenting on the atrocious acts of Smyth that spanned a forty-year
period, O’Gorman recalls the level of terror still visible in Brendan
Smyth’s victims years later as something “extraordinary”.

http://www.thejournal.ie/abuse-survivor-without-courage-or-integrity-cardinal-brady-failed-and-it-is-unforgiveable-437703-May2012/



In full: Cardinal Brady responds to allegations over role in abuse
inquiry 5/2/12
http://www.thejournal.ie/in-full-cardinal-brady-responds-to-allegations-over-role-in-abuse-inquiry-437208-May2012/



Professor Perrin Appointed Special Advisor to the Prime Minister

UBC Law Professor Benjamin Perrin has recently been appointed as
Special Advisor, Legal Affairs & Policy in the Prime Minister's Office
in Ottawa....

In 2010, Professor Perrin published his first book, Invisible Chains:
Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking (Penguin Canada,
2010). The book, an expose on the issue of human trafficking in
Canada, was named one of the top books of the year by The Globe and
Mail.

He has testified before a number of Parliamentary committees studying
the issue of human trafficking and child sexual exploitation. In 2010,
Parliament adopted Bill C-268, a private members' bill calling for
mandatory minimum sentences for child traffickers. Professor Perrin
proposed and helped draft the bill, which was first introduced to the
House of Commons in January 2009 by Member of Parliament Joy
Smith....

Professor Perrin...is co-editor of Human Trafficking: Exploring the
International Nature, Concerns and Complexities (CRC Press, 2011), and
editor of Modern Warfare: Armed Groups, Private Militaries,
Humanitarian Organizations and the Law (UBC Press, 2012).
http://www.law.ubc.ca/news/2012/may/05_01_12_perrin.html
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