Church child protection board admits guideline gaps

THE National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) in the Catholic Church has admitted there are gaps in the Church’s child protection guidelines that will have to be closed following the resignation of the Cloyne child protection delegate last weekend.

The admission comes as a second woman revealed the delegate, Fr Bill Bermingham also showed her informal statement of abuse claims to the priest at the centre of the allegations.

As in the previous case, the file was given by Fr Bermingham to the accused priest and his solicitor before gardaí interviewed him.