Abused children paid for seminary's failures

The Ferns Inquiry has cast a dark shadow over the seminary which produced almost all of the priests involved in cases of child sexual abuse in the diocese.

The Ferns Inquiry has cast a dark shadow over the seminary which produced almost all of the priests involved in cases of child sexual abuse in the diocese.

The inquiry found that in one random five-year period, St Peter’s College, in Summerhill, Co Wexford had 10 priests who later became the subject of child sexual allegations.

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