Hij beeindigde zijn leven, 2 dagen na "mediation" met vertegenwoordigers van de Kerk, over het kerkelijk seksueel misbruik waarvan hij als 10 jarige slachtoffer was geworden.
Van zijn 37 jaren Leven was hij 27 jaar slachtoffer van kerkelijk seksueel misbruik.
Deze misdadige schending van zijn leven heeft hij pas de laatste 4 jaar van dat leven aan anderen, zijn familie, verteld.
Peter McClosky zal 23 van zijn 37 jaar vreselijk eenzaam zijn geweest.
Hij is zonder enige twijfel niet de laatste, bij wie er iets knapte, zoals zijn broer het uitdrukte, en het gevecht om te kunnen blijven leven met het misbruik verleden verloor.
Slachtoffers worden maar al te makkelijk gezien als geldwolven.
Zo worden zij ook al te vaak afgeschilderd door de Kerk, door gelovigen.
Peter McClosksy - en met hem al zovelen - heeft door de houding van die Kerk en de noodzakelijke erkenning van de misdaden gepleegd tegen kinderen waarvan de gevolgen levenslang zijn -
zijn leven verloren.
Een moeder verloor haar zoon,
zijn broers een broer
zijn 3 dochters, 10.11 en 13 jaar, hun vader
zijn vrouw haar partner.
Zijn familie slaat elkaar in de publiciteit onderling de hersens in of de ene helft van de familie hun mond had moeten houden of niet....
Weer een familie naar de kl.....
En heel wat slachtoffers, en hun partners broers, zusters ouders zijn de nachtmerrie van angst weer in.
Ik ben niet ontevreden dat ik, dankzij de manipulatie van rorate.com en wat daarbij -augustus 2005 - bleek over Kerk en Recht mijn 2e poging tot het starten van een procedure wegens seksueel misbruik heb stopgezet.
In die Kerk is nauwelijks respect voor Leven en recht te vinden voor slachtoffers!
Resign, angry mum tells bishop
Tuesday April 18th 2006
AN angry mother yesterday called on Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray
to resign - and claimed the Catholic Church was directly responsible for her son's death.
Peter McCloskey (37) was found dead an April 1, two days after mediation talks with Catholic Church representatives in relation to his allegations of clerical sex abuse.
His brother Joseph McCloskey yesterday said "something very fine"
inside him "had snapped" after he had talks with a senior priest and nun from the Limerick diocese.
Mr McCloskey had contacted the Church in relation to abuse he
alleged he had suffered in 1980/81 from Fr Denis Daly, an Irish priest who had been ordained in Australia but who had returned to Ireland and who had worked as a supply priest in Limerick from 1978 to 1987.
Mr McCloskey was aged 10 when the alleged abuse began. Fr Daly, who
died in 1987, had been aged 55.
Fr Daly had left Australia under a cloud, having run foul of police
in New South Wales, and had failed to get work as a priest in the diocese of
Down and Connor.
At a press conference yesterday, Mr McCloskey's mother, Mary McCloskey, said she believed her son was "denied compassion, humanity and basic dignity by the diocese of Limerick".
Referring to his death on April 1 last, two days after the meeting with diocesan representatives, she said: "I believe the actions of the Limerick diocese are directly responsible for Peter's death. Where Christian charity humanity and the love of Christ were called for, Peter encountered a litigious response, denial of liability and was threatened with being sued for legal costs. My son Peter paid those costs with his life."
Her comments followed an RTE 'Prime Time' documentary last Thursday
during which Bishop Murray had said he had tried to help Mr McCloskey and that he believed the Church had tried to help him towards some kind of healing "as best we could".
But Mrs McCloskey insisted yesterday that Peter did not receive
"sincere support from the diocese".
"Bishop Donal Murray . . . failed to show proper Christian love or
even basic humanity to my son. I believe if he examines his conscience with real honesty, he will realise that he must step down from his position. He must allow a man who can bring integrity to the office of the Bishop of Limerick to take his place."
Colm O'Gorman of the One in Four organisation - which offers support to victims of clerical abuse - disputed that there had been any suggestion of an apology from the Church and challenged the bishop to produce
any written evidence of such an apology in relation to the alleged abuse.
He also said he felt strict confidentiality imposed by the diocesan legal team should be lifted so the family could effectively challenge the Church's response to Mr McCloskey's allegations. In a statement last night, a spokesman for the bishop said: "
Bishop Murray has been, and will continue to be available to meet
Peter's family and support them in any way he can at this difficult time and to discuss concerns that they have."
© Irish Independenthttp://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/ & http://www.unison.ie/Four in One support group leader Colm O'Gorman expressed shock and dismay at statements made by Bishop Murray. Mr O'Gorman called for the confidentiality agreement Mr McCloskey signed as part of the mediation process to be waived to allow the truth to emerge.
He rejected suggestions that the late Mr McCloskey walked out of the mediation. Mr O'Gorman claimed the bishop was aware Mr McCloskey was travelling to Australia to find out the truth about the priest who abused him and that arrangements were made for him to meet with Australian Church sources.
He said Mr McCloskey travelled to Australia in 2004 and uncovered the offending priest's file held by Sydney diocese.It showed nearly 30 years' of correspondence between Church authorities in Australia and Ireland.
Mr McCloskey had claimed he was abused by Clare-born priest Fr Denis Daly when he served as an altar boy at 10 years of age.
Fr Daly returned from Australia to serve four years in Limerick, having fallen foul of New South Wales police over a "moral lapse" in 1963. He died in 1987. Yesterday, Ms McCloskey said she believed her son's death was preventable.
Bishop Murray and diocesan secretary Fr Paul Finnerty appeared on RTÉ TV's Prime Time programme following Mr McCloskey's death. In her statement, Ms McCloskey vehemently rejected both clerics' comments "that they walked the journey with my son Peter, in their pastoral care. Peter walked his journey without any sincere support from the diocese."
A spokesperson for Bishop Murray said Mr McCloskey's death was deeply upsetting for all who knew him. Bishop Murray had been, and would continue to be, available to meet Peter's family and support them "in any way he can at this difficult time and to discuss concerns that they may have".
They killed my son
Aine Bonner, The Star
Devastated mum Mary McCloskey is blaming Church authorities for the death of her clerical abuse victim son.
Peter McCloskey (37) took his own life two days after mediation talks with the Diocese of Limerick broke down.
Peter would be alive if it wasn’t for them: Mum slams church over abused son who took his own life
The devastated mum of a clerical abuse victim who ended his own life three weeks ago has called on the Bishop of Limerick to resign.
Mary McCloskey claimed last night that her son Peter would still be alive if another cleric had been dealing with his case.
“I believe the actions of the Limerick Diocese are directly responsible for Peter’s death,” she said.“I ask that Bishop Donal Murray now examine his conscience. He failed to show proper Christian love or even basic humanity to my son.
“I believe if he examines his conscience with real honesty he will realise that he must step down from his position.”However the estranged wife of 37-year-old Peter, Cathy McCloskey, told The Star last night that she had not been told that Mary McCloskey and Peter’s brother Joseph would be speaking to the press.
She said: “I’m just devastated that the children aren’t allowed to grieve their
dad. “Why all this had to come out now I don’t know.”
She and Peter had three daughters aged 13, 11 and 10.Yesterday, Bishop Murray released a statement saying Peter’s death was “deeply upsetting for all who knew him” and that he invited abuse victims to contact the diocese.
But Mary McCloskey last night urged people not to go to Bishop Murray for help – because her son went to him and now he is dead.
Peter had battled for years to expose the truth about the evil priest
who abused him.But sick Denis Daly from Killaloe, Co Clare died in 1987 – eight years after subjecting the then 10-year-old Peter to horrific abuse while he was an altar boy at Caherdavin Parish in Co Limerick.
The abusing priest, who was often moved between parishes, was never brought to justice and now tragic Peter will never see the truth emerge as he took his own life on April 1.
Fed up being stonewalled by the bishop and devastated by the breakdown of mediation into his case, Peter ended it all after years fighting for justice.
Colm O’Gorman of victim support group One in Four said yesterday: “What drove Peter more than anything else was to have the truth acknowledged.“He believed that he’d been repeatedly disbelieved and called a liar in relation to his experiences with abuse. He found that very damaging.”
Peter had suffered in silence until he finally told his family about the abuse in 2002.And his brother Joseph believes a breakdown in the mediation process earlier this month was the final straw for his sibling – who took his own life two days later.
“I think something very delicate, something very fine had been crushed in his mind that day,” Joseph said last night.
According to O’Gorman, the Diocese of Limerick sought an extra level of confidentiality in Peter’s case “that went above and beyond the
normal level.”Bishop Murray told Prime Time last Sunday that he did not withhold information about Fr Daly from Peter McCloskey.
But Peter’s family and One in Four both claim that this statement was untrue.And last night Mary McCloskey was determined to find justice for her son. “As a mother, I am responsible for failing to protect my son from the most evil crime that can be perpetrated upon a child.
“I believed my little boy was safe from all harm while in the Church. The Church, which my family believed in so strongly, has betrayed by trust and violated my innocent child.”
