Order followed procedures and was sensitive to complainant

THE case of Fr Kael (not his real name) is one of the few incidences in the Cloyne Report that was deemed to have been handled correctly.

The commission found that the religious order of which Fr Kael was a part, “unlike the Diocese of Cloyne in most of the other cases, dealt properly with this complaint”.

The complaint against the priest was made in April 2002 by a woman, Airell (not her real name) who claimed she had been abused by Fr Kael in August 1966 when she was aged 11.