Cardinal Sean Brady
will not resign over his swearing to secrecy of two child victims of
notorious paedophile Brendan Smyth 35 years ago, his spokesman said last
night.
The renewed call for resignation came in a UTV
investigation from the last woman to be abused by Smyth in 1993, some 28
years after the then Fr Brady interviewed children about Smyth.
The
woman, who was abused when she was aged 12, said she would not have
been raped by "the devil Smyth" if Fr Brady "had done his job" and
reported Smyth to the gardai in 1975.
UTV highlighted a statement
by Cardinal Brady that if he thought any of his actions had damaged
children, he would consider resigning.
But last night his spokesman said Cardinal Brady was only a priest at the time not a manager.
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