Two Canterbury men are accusing the Catholic church of enabling a priest to carry out a string of child sex attacks in multiple South Island parishes. Documents show the church knew Father Cornelius O'Brien was a serial predator when, in 2007, it thanked him publicly for his service. See 'Priests from Ireland' on page eight of the Catholic Bishop of Christchurch's June 2007 newsletter Inform.
His years of attacks on one boy, from age four, culminated in rape, said that victim, who RNZ has agreed not to name. This man won an apology and limited compensation after complaining in 2004.
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