Rape centre chief wants all dioceses investigated

THE head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) has called for every diocese in the country to be investigated by the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation.

Following the announcement that the commission will investigate alleged sex abuse in the Cork diocese of Cloyne, Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop, chief executive of the DRCC questioned why, in light of the fact that no diocese completed the section of an HSE audit which would have revealed any abuses, the Government was not asking for them all to be investigated.

She said it simply was not known if there were any similar problems in other dioceses, and the only way to find out would be to probe them.