O’Callaghan afraid of giving ‘compensation by subterfuge’

A WOMAN who was sexually assaulted in an industrial school by the priest who referred her to the institution was denied money towards counselling because Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan was afraid of giving “compensation by subterfuge”.

The victim, given the pseudonym Rona, was sent to industrial school in Cork in 1965 on the recommendation of a priest dubbed Fr Darian.

When this man visited her he sexually assaulted her. When she cried for help her mother dismissed the allegations, deemed her to be “mad” and committed her to an “asylum”.