US law firm plans ad blitz to find paedophile

A US law firm is planning to put advertisements in Irish newspapers seeking information on the whereabouts of paedophile former priest Oliver O’Grady, as more alleged victims have come forward.

The subject of the 2006 Oscar-nominated film Deliver Us, O’Grady, 61, has admitted molesting up to 25 children while a parish priest in California. Church authorities there have been accused of masking his activity by continually moving him from parish to parish. However, his crimes caught up with him and he served seven years in a US jail for molesting two brothers.

O’Grady was deported to Ireland in 2001 on condition that he abide by strict child abuse prevention measures. However, while he is on the sex offender’s register here, his exact location is not known. During the film he was shown leering at children in a Dublin school before admitting that he was still aroused by children.