Wicklow Sex abuse priest back ministering, living under church care

A PRIEST who sexually abused boys in Co Wicklow is back living in the region in the care of the church and ministering to retired clergy.

Fr Thomas Naughton, who assaulted altar boys in at least three parishes in the Dublin Archdiocese, resides in

semi-retirement at the headquarters of St Patrick's Missionary Society in Kiltegan village, in the west of the county.