British cardinal under fire over sex priest

A ROMAN Catholic priest was allowed to continue in ministry despite admitting incidents of sexual abuse with a teenager, the BBC reported yesterday.

British cardinal under fire over sex priest

The church said the victim refused to take his complaint to police, and that the case was handled within the church's new guidelines.

The case came to light less than a week after Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said in a letter to The Times newspaper that in instances of well-founded allegations of abuse, “action would now be taken to remove a priest from active ministry”.

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