Abraham en z'n mosterd. Convicted priest Oliver O’Grady/Stockton Diocese named in new abuse suit

Many California victims born after 1977 still may have legal rights to expose abuse, get justice and keep kids safe right now.

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Heel goed nieuws vooraf aan een kamerdebat O’Grady Ex-priest jailed for three years over child pornography

The Irish Times
31-1-2012

A FORMER priest and convicted child abuser has been jailed for three years for possession of large amounts of child pornography.

Oliver O’Grady (66) had thousands of explicit images of children stored on computers and USB drives, some depicting victims as young as two. Gardaí also found more than six hours of child pornography videos and more than 500 pages of online discussions on the subject of child pornography.

O’Grady, Charlemont House, Dublin, was sentenced to 14 years in California for abusing children while a priest. He was deported to Ireland in 2001 after serving seven years of his sentence.

The images were discovered after O’Grady left his laptop on an Aer Lingus flight. A staff member examined the computer and alerted gardaí after coming across the files.

O’Grady pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to three counts of possessing child pornography at Dublin airport on February 15th, 2010, and at Citi Hostel, Charlemont Street, and Elephant storage unit, Tallaght, on December 10th, 2010.

Det Garda Gerard Keane of the paedophile investigations unit told Kerida Naidoo, prosecuting, that he found nearly 280,000 images on O’Grady’s laptops and hard drives, the majority showing children in sexual poses. He also found more than 1,000 child pornography video files which totalled more than six hours in length.

An audio file was also discovered. It started off with O’Grady discussing religious matters but after several minutes he began discussing the sexual abuse of a male child before returning to the topic of religion.

Det Garda Keane also found more than 500 pages of chat logs which showed O’Grady’s “serious fixation” on children. Most of the data had already been deleted by O’Grady but Garda computer experts were able to recover it.

On February 15th, 2010, O’Grady was returning to Dublin from Amsterdam on an Aer Lingus flight. He left his laptop on the aircraft and it was put in the lost property department by airline staff.

Aer Lingus rules state that if lost property is not claimed within three months, the staff member who found it is allowed to keep it. When a staff member claimed possession of the computer and examined its contents, they found the illegal files and alerted gardaí.

Gardaí went to the hostel where O’Grady was staying and he showed them to a locker containing several USB devices and an external hard drive. He also told them about more computer equipment in a storage facility in Tallaght. All the devices contained illegal files.

In interview, O’Grady admitted the equipment was his but answered “no comment” to all other questions.

Phillipp Rahn SC, defending, said O’Grady was “a socially isolated man”.

He was born in Limerick and emigrated to California after joining the priesthood. In 1993 he was sentenced to 14 years for four counts of lewd acts against children and was deported to Ireland on his release.

After leaving the priesthood, he moved to Amsterdam for several years before returning to Ireland on the flight where he left his laptop behind. While here, he had to move residence several times because of his notoriety.

“If people didn’t download child pornography,” Judge Martin Nolan said, “there is a good chance that those

children would not be abused in the first place.”

He said O’Grady had a serious problem and prison in America had not rehabilitated him.

He took into account his early guilty plea and limited co-operation with gardaí before jailing him for three years.

Hielp deze gedane melding, waarop ook al nooit zelfs maar een uw bericht ontvangen, dank U, reactie kwam wellicht mee, Heer Deetman dat uw keffende sekretaris zelfs de door U gedane toezeggingen - komt u na de bijeenkomst maar even langs tactiek - ook nog steeds niet na is gekomen? 't kwam, een paar uur voor de openheid over het Hofnarretje en een PvdA congres inderdaad beroerd uit, mijnheer de politicus

Man, man, man wat een stank in 2 jaar tijd.
't Zal je kind maar wezen

Former priest remanded on child porn charges

Irish Examiner
February 25, 2011

A defrocked priest accused of possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, was remanded on continuing bail today pending directions from the DPP.

Oliver O'Grady (aged 65), with an address at a hostel, in Dublin 2, had been arrested on December 10 last.

At his fourth appearance at Dublin District Court today, Judge Cormac Dunne remanded the defendant to appear again on March 25 next. Earlier in the case, Detective Garda Johanna Doyle of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation had said that further charges were being contemplated.

Previously, the court had heard that the defendant had lived at various addresses in Ireland since he was deported from the United States, in 2001. He rents a lock-up facility and a postbox to store his personal belongings. As part of his bail conditions he must sign on twice daily at Harcourt Terrace garda station.

Mr O'Grady also gave an undertaking earlier not to seek travel documentation and has surrendered his passport to gardaí.

The material allegedly confiscated included images and videos on a USB key, an external hard drive and a laptop. Det-Gda Doyle had told the court earlier: “We are talking about thousands upon thousands of images of child pornography. Children from the age of two and three up to teenage boys and girls.”

Irish state consider further charges against pedophile Oliver O’Grady

State lawyers have confirmed that they are considering further charges against the defrocked pedophile priest Oliver O’Grady currently living in Dublin. O'Grady has been remanded on bail for bail for another four weeks awaiting instructions from the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP).

Currently he is accused of the possession of pornographic image on USB keys and a hard drive on December 10 last year. He appeared in court this week and has now been remanded for four week.

Judge Cormac Dunne has confirmed that the 65-year-old defrocked priest could receive further charges.

He will appear in court on February 25 for further direction from the DPP.

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Detective Johanna Doyle said “We are talking about thousands upon thousands of images of child pornography. Children from the age of two and three up to teenage boys and girls."

The police asked that another condition of bail be that Mr O’Grady have no contact with children. The Judge said this was not possible as he is living in a hostel.

Defrocked priest charged with possession of child pornography

Sunday Tribune

Ali Bracken and Mark Hilliard
12-12-2010

Defrocked Irish cleric Oliver O'Grady was yesterday charged with possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, some as young as two.

He was granted bail at Dublin District Court despite garda objections.

Judge James McDonnell heard that 65-year-old O'Grady was arrested at his Dublin hostel on Friday morning just after 7am. The material confiscated included images and videos on a USB key, an external hard drive and a laptop. Det garda Johanna Doyle told the court: "We are talking about thousands upon thousands of images of child pornography. Children from the age of two and three up to teenage boys and girls."

Defending solicitor Dara Robinson told the court that his client had difficult personal circumstances and did not have financial means. "His personal circumstances are very unfortunate; he is a highly educated man who has had a very serious fall from grace.

He has significant estrangement from his family and his social circumstances have changed."

The court heard the defendant rents a lock-up facility and a postbox in which to store his personal belongings.

O'Grady, with an address at ...Dublin , was formally charged at Pearse Street garda station at 3.13pm yesterday with possession of child pornography. Gardaí told the court that further charges are likely to follow.

The former priest, wearing a black jacket, black trousers and a blue sweater, remained silent throughout except when asked to clarify his name and address. Det garda Doyle told the judge that O'Grady has lived at various addresses in Ireland since his deportation from the US in 2001.

Gardaí strenuously objected to bail on the basis of how serious the charges were and that there were more to follow. However, Robinson argued that the court could only deal with the issue of bail on the basis of the charge before the court. Judge McDonnell consented to bail of €500 and told O'Grady that he must sign on twice daily at Harcourt Terrace garda station before his next court appearance next Friday.

De garda Doyle asked that a condition of bail be that O'Grady have no contact with children.

Judge McDonnell said this could not be implemented as O'Grady lives in a hostel.

O'Grady gave an undertaking not to seek travel documentation as the gardaí have confiscated his passport.

Oliver O'Grady opgepakt?

Of het bericht correct is?
Geen idee. Ik heb elders nog geen bevestiging kunnen vinden... Feit is dat de man onderwerp is kunnen worden van heel wat vermeend "strategisch" gerotzooi. Feit is ook dat weekend is, en ook dat heeft nog steeds consequenties voor berichtgeving.
Maar moge het waar zijn!
Laat er dan de politieke moed en het benul zijn dat er realistische oplossingen gevonden moeten worden voor dit soort hele zieke mensen, zijn slachtoffers uit het verleden maar vooral de zonder oplossingen toekomstige slachtoffers.
Moge ipv het doorschuiven de noodzakelijke oplossingen nu eindelijk werkelijkheid zijn!


SNAP Press Statement
For immediate release: Saturday, December 11, 2010
Notorious CA/Irish predator arrested-Sex abuse victims respond

Statement by Nancy Sloan, SNAP Stockton co-director & victim of Oliver O'Grady. (707)631-7654 Nancy.Sloan@sbcglobal.net

NOTE-Irish law enforcement officials have arrested Fr. Oliver O'Grady on child porn charges. He has molested numerous kids in California and was recently found living in the Netherlands)
We're thrilled this extremely dangerous predator priest has been arrested and hope he will soon be locked up for a long time. That's the only way to really protect kids.
...rest

Oliver O’Grady has cost diocese in California over $30m in abuse compensation Priest forced siblings to abuse each other

September 5, 2010
The Sunday Tribune

Brother and sister receive $2m compensation for sexual assault by paedophile Oliver

Ali Bracken, Crime Correspondent

Defrocked priest Oliver O’Grady has cost diocese in California over $30m in abuse compensation

DEFROCKED Irish paedophile priest Oliver O’Grady forced a brother and a sister to perform sex acts on each other after he raped and sexually assaulted them in California over a number of years, the Sunday Tribune can reveal.

The brother and sister, who were aged seven and eight respectively when O’Grady began to abuse them in Presentation parish in California in the mid ’80s, were awarded $2m (€1.5m) in compensation in recent weeks.

The diocese of Stockton in California settled the case after a number of pre-trial hearings. In total, it is estimated that the diocese of Stockton has paid out over $30m (€23.3m) to victims of the convicted sex abuser.

Attorney Anthony De Marco, at the law firm Kiesel Boucher Larson in LA, took the civil action on behalf of the siblings.

“The abuse was as awful as you can imagine. O’Grady used to go into their classroom and take them out of class; they attended a Catholic elementary school. It was attached to a church and he would take them into the church to abuse them. He would abuse them in front of each other. He forced one child to watch while he abused the other. He even made them do things to each other. He coerced them to abuse each other,” De Marco told the Sunday Tribune.

“The abuse went on for a few years. He also abused them in their family home. It was rape and sexual assault in both cases. The abuse was horrific. They are coping as best they can, they have obviously had a lot of therapy. I think coming forward helped them and getting resolution is helping towards their healing. But nothing will take away the images in their minds. I have dealt with over 400 victims of sexual abuse in southern California and come across some truly horrific offenders. But when I read the Oliver O’Grady file, the level of callousness and disregard for children appalled me.”

O’Grady was deported to Ireland in 2000 after spending seven years in prison in the US for sexually abusing two boys. He still lives here. He has admitted to sexually abusing many children in depositions, but has only been convicted for abuse against two boys. Dozens of victims of the former cleric have since come forward.

The former priest obtained notoriety when he agreed to feature in a documentary discussing his sexual abuse of children. Deliver Us From Evil, which was nominated for an Oscar, was released in 2006 and many of O’Grady’s victims also featured in it, discussing the impact his abuse has had on their lives.

The documentary also explored how high-ranking clergy in California moved O’Grady from one parish to another over several years when allegations of sexual abuse began to emerge.

België Canada: Eric Dejaeger: Red notice Interpol Flemish Canadian recidivist

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Interpol zoekt Vlaamse pater die kinderen misbruikte
De Morgen
13/07/10 05u25

Interpol heeft een red notice uitgevaardigd tegen pater Eric Dejaeger.
De Vlaamse geestelijke werd in Canada veroordeeld wegens pedofilie en moet er een gevangenisstraf uitzitten.

De paters oblaten in Blanden houden hem echter al tien jaar verborgen omdat hij zijn straf al zou uitgezeten hebben in Canada.

De uit Roeselare afkomstige pater Eric Dejaeger trok in de jaren zeventig naar Canada om er op het eiland Igloolik, in het barre noorden, Inuit tot het christendom te bekeren. Op 5 april 1990 werd hij veroordeeld tot vijf jaar cel voor de verkrachting van acht kinderen, zowel jongens als meisjes, schrijft de krant De Morgen.

Recidivist

De man verbleef slechts enkele maanden in de gevangenis, en na zijn vervroegde vrijlating begon hij meteen te recidiveren. Begin 1995 werden negen nieuwe aanklachten tegen hem geuit en leek de pater onvermijdelijk terug naar de gevangenis te moeten. De provinciale oversten van de Paters Oblaten in Vlaanderen zorgden er echter voor dat hij buiten medeweten van zijn parole officer Canada kon ontvluchten.

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Canadese nationaliteit

In 2001 verpreidde Interpol al een eerste opsporingsbericht tegen Dejaeger, toen vergezeld met een waarschuwing: "Person may be dangerous." Dejaeger koos eind jaren zeventig voor de Canadese nationaliteit en kan dus perfect worden uitgeleverd als Canada daarom zou verzoeken.

Een red notice bij Interpol is niet hetzelfde als een internationaal aanhoudingsmandaat.

Het is de bedoeling dat mensen die de gezochte persoon (her)kennen, contact opnemen met de politie, zodat die verder kan overleggen met de bevoegde diensten in Brussel en Ottawa. (belga/vsv)


“Red notices are only issued if the requesting Interpol national central bureau has provided all the information required by the general secretariat, including details of a valid arrest warrant for the country in question.

“The Interpol general secretariat is committed to ensuring that red notices are issued and maintained in accordance with the organization’s constitution and rules which are based on the rule of law and international standards of police cooperation and fundamental human rights.

“The general secretariat reviews all red notices before and after they are published in order to ensure their consistency with Interpol’s rules, and in particular with Article 3 of the organization’s constitution which states that it is ‘strictly forbidden for the organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character.’

This prohibition is taken extremely seriously by Interpol.“

Many of Interpol’s member countries consider a red notice a valid request for provisional arrest, especially if they are linked to the requesting country via a bilateral extradition treaty. In cases where arrests are made based on a red notice, these are made by national police officials in Interpol member countries. Interpol’s general secretariat does not send officers to arrest individuals who are the subject of a red notice, and cannot demand that any member country arrest the subject of a red notice.“

Any member country may challenge the validity of a red notice if they believe it contravenes Article 3. The person who is the subject of a red notice may also challenge it.

“Whenever an Article 3 issue is raised, the request is examined carefully to ensure that the red notice in question does not contravene Interpol’s constitution.

“If the general secretariat determines that the case does not contravene Article 3, the member country which brought the challenge can take the matter to the executive committee, and ultimately to the general assembly, Interpol’s supreme governing body.

“These safeguards ensure a transparent and structured process to address and resolve such issues.”

O'Grady. De Nederlandse Justitie - en de kerk - hield de mond.

2 Nieuwe artikelen in de Sunday Tribune.

Ze gaan mijn grenzen ver voorbij.
Er zijn zo vele grenzen ver overschreden.

Pedofilie, sexueel misbruik gaat over geweld en ziekte.
Over machts misbruik. Niet over sexualiteit.

Er waren mensen in Rotterdam die hun werk deden.
Zoals er over die hele wereld heen mensen zijn die keer op keer de moed vinden om de enig mogelijke keus te maken.

En zij, verantwoordelijk voor dat geweld op mij bedreven, weet je voor vannacht vervloekt door mij!

God heeft mensen nodig...




Inside the mind of a paedophile
Sunday Tribune
May 2 2010

Described as the "Hannibal Lecter of the clerical world", convicted Irish paedophile priest Oliver O'Grady has admitted to sexually abusing at least 25 boys and girls in the US.

He was jailed for 14 years in 1993 but was released in 2000 after serving just seven years.
He was immediately deported back to Ireland and has lived in different parts of the country since then but moved to the Netherlands in 2007.

In March 2005, O'Grady gave an affidavit to the lawyers representing his victims in a civil case against the Catholic Church. In the affidavit, obtained by Ali Bracken, he graphically describes why he abused and how the church made the abuse worse by moving him from parish to parish

Warning: Defrocked priest Oliver O'Grady's chilling account of his years of abusing children contains graphic material that may upset some readers
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Oliver O'Grady on monthly $800 church pension

Ali Bracken, Crime Correspondent
Sunday Tribune
2-5-2010


Notorious defrocked Irish paedophile priest Oliver O'Grady is to receive a pension worth $100,000 from next month despite admitting to abusing at least 25 young boys and girls.
The Sunday Tribune can reveal that O'Grady – described as the "Hannibal Lecter of the clerical world" – will be paid a pension of $800 a month starting on 5 June, when he turns 65.

The Catholic church in California agreed to pay him a pension for ten years despite O'Grady having admitted to a catalogue of abuse for which he received a 14-year jail sentence.
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de O''Grady s; the Church now has a few thousand convicted sexual offenders on our hands and I don’t think anybody knows what to do with them.

Posted by Felapton

I do not excuse any part of any of the cases that have come to light. But the Church now has a few thousand convicted sexual offenders on our hands and I don’t think anybody knows what to do with them.
The answer “put them in prison and trust their cellmates to see to it that they do not come out alive” is not consonant with the faith we profess.
Defrocking them and dumping them back out into the world is an abrogation of responsibility.
Handing them over to their clerical brethren, who have already proved themselves excessively credulous if not outright complicit is not an attractive solution either.
So what is to be done?

Bruges Bishop Resigns
April 23, 2010, 1:06 pm
Posted by Lisa Fullam
The BBC reports today that Roger Vangheluwe, bishop of Bruges, Belgium, has resigned because of his own sexual abuse of a boy, abuse which continued into his episcopacy. The report also mentions another bishop who resigned last year, admitting abuse, and lists those bishops who have resigned for reasons other than direct sexual abuse themselves.
It strikes me that there are really three different phenomena going on: sexual abuse of minors (itself divisible into subgroups according to the age of the victims,) physical abuse of minors, and the cover-up of sexual and physical abuse of minors by Church leaders.

I fear that without careful parsing:

1. there will continue to be much sound and fury about direct abuse of minors, but little will be done to address the institutional structures of power that encouraged, enabled and enforced the cover-up.

2. we will fail to recognize the differing factors that lead to different kinds of abuse.
For example, invoking the inclusion of women in authorized leadership in the Church as “the solution” fails to recognize that women as well as men participate in abuse of personal power, while women are much less likely to be sexual abusers than men. Also, questions around celibacy and clerical culture are related to the three kinds of abuse in different ways. More subtlety is needed.

Also, I wonder if any of the US bishops who were promoted to their own dioceses as a reward for their faithful participation in the cover-up will be shamed into resigning by the example of others who have done so.

The core of the institutional problem, I believe, is the cover-up and the institutional structures that fostered it. Even canning bishops who abuse won’t address that fundamental issue. It’s like removing the damaged wood from a house without doing anything about the termites that did the damage–the effect is fixed, the cause is ignored.

Justitie en O' Grady; misbruikers in Europa's vrij personen verkeer:Walter Eith man müsse sich oft von liebgewonnen Gemeindemitgliedern verabschieden

Nu zijn er een paar dingen waar ik een zeer hartgrondige pesthekel aan heb.
Eén daarvan is het head hunting door particulieren!

Onder internationale verdragen staat immers niet mijn handtekening, en pedo-jagen door particulieren vind ik dan ook wel heel dicht richting summum van cynisme gaan.

Zouden de Ha Ha wereldlijke en kerkelijke overheden dit probleem van de internationale samenleving en Fort Europa dus even op willen lossen?

Wellicht een idee voor het Vaticaan om dit soort clericale misbruikers -onder toezicht! - naar de Zuid Europeese stranden te sturen. Het begraven van de dankzij dat zelfde Fort Europa daar aangespoelende lijken is tenslotte voor wie dan ook een diep trieste opdracht over dezelfde realiteit.


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Sulzer Pfarrer unter Verdacht
Missbrauchsvorwürfe gegen Walter Eith aufgetaucht
28-4-2010

Sulz/Dorhan/ Vöhringen.
Die katholische Kirche hat Walter Eith, Pfarrer der Seelsorgeeinheit Sankt Jakobus (Sulz, Dornhan, Leinstetten, Bettenhausen und Vöhringen) angewiesen, seine Amtsgeschäfte ruhen zu lassen. Der 56-jährige Eith soll Kinder missbraucht haben.

Dies erklärte gestern Abend der Pressesprecher der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Dr. Thomas Broch, auf Anfrage der SÜDWEST PRESSE.

Die Vorwürfe beziehen sich auf mehrere Fälle auch aus der Zeit, als Eith noch gar kein Priester war (er wurde 1984 in Bad Mergentheim geweiht). Laut Broch hat sich im Februar ein 40-jähriger Mann bei der Diözese gemeldet und von einem Missbrauch im Jahr 1981 berichtet. Und erst vor wenigen Tagen habe ein weiteres Opfer Kontakt aufgenommen, das 1977 missbraucht worden sein soll. Darüberhinaus gibt es offenbar weitere Fälle aus den Jahren 1987 bis 1990, von denen einer der Kirchenleitung im Jahr 2004 bekannt geworden ist. Broch: „Diesen Fall hat er auch 2005 zugegeben und bekam von der Diözese eine ultimative Ermahnung“.

Anfang der 90er-Jahre soll sich Eith in psychotherapeutische Behandlung begeben haben. Broch: „Die uns bekannten Vorwürfe beziehen sich alle auf die Zeit davor, danach ist uns nichts mehr bekannt“.

Broch war gestern Abend in Sulz, wo die Diözesanoberen und Dekan Albrecht Zepf aus Oberndorf die Kirchengemeinderäte der Seelsorgeeinheit Sankt Jakobus in einer eilig einberufenen Sondersitzung über die Entwicklung informierten, „bevor sie es heute aus der Zeitung erfahren“ (Broch).
Hintergrund der Eile war offenbar ein gestern Abend von der „Stuttgarter Zeitung“ für die heutige Ausgabe angekündigter Bericht über die Vorwürfe gegen Eith. Eines der Opfer, so Broch, habe sich an die Zeitung gewandt. Die Zeitungsvorabmeldung lief gestern Abend dann über die Radiostationen im Land.

Es ist der zweite Fall in der katholischen Kirche in Württemberg, bei dem einem aktiven Priester alle Dienstgeschäfte untersagt wurden. Vor knapp zwei Wochen war ein Priester aus Munderkingen (Alb-Donau-Kreis) abgelöst worden. Für Irritationen sorgt in beiden Fällen, dass Bischof Gebhard Fürst den beiden betroffenen Priestern noch im Herbst 2009 jeweils eine neue Pfarrei anvertraut hat, obwohl er damals schon von dem Missbrauchsverdacht gegen beide wusste. Laut Diözese habe es jedoch aus damaliger Einschätzung keine Gründe gegeben, die es gerechtfertigt hätten, weitere Sanktionen zu verhängen. Erst jetzt sei der Verdacht durch neue Zeugenaussagen konkret geworden. Gegen beide Priester ermittelt auch die Staatsanwaltschaft.

Pfarrer Eiths Investitur war Ende November in Sulz, nachdem die Stelle 14 Monate nach dem Ausscheiden von Pfarrer Raimund Heizmann vakant war. Für das katholische Auslandssekretariat Bonn war Eith seit 2007 für die deutschen Katholiken auf Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza und Formentera zuständig. In Belgien war Eith von 2004 bis 2007 fürs Auslandssekretariat. Geboren wurde er 1952 in Schwenningen, von 1966 bis 1969 war er im Rottenburger Internat „Martinihaus“, von 1969 bis zum Abi 1973 im Konvikt in Rottweil. Anschließend studierte er Theologie in Tübingen und Kirchenmusik in Rottenburg bis 1977. Danach ging es wieder nach Rottweil, als Chorleiter und Organist in der Auferstehung-Christi-Kirche und als Referendar an den Berufsschulen. Nach der Priesterweihe 1984 war Eith zwei Jahre Vikar in Biberach. Seine erste Pfarrstelle trat Eith in Mochenwangen-Wolpertswende bei Ravensburg an, wo er sich auch als Studentenseelsorger an der PH Weingarten engagierte und Diözesanseelsorger des Kinderchor-Verbandes Pueri Cantores wurde.

29/04/10 Duitse priester die in België werkte beschuldigd van pedofilie

Een Duitse priester die ook drie jaar in België gewerkt heeft, wordt er in zijn thuisland van beschuldigd zich aan jongens vergrepen te hebben, melden Duitse media.

Tegen de 56-jarige man, die ook een tijdlang priester was voor de Duitstalige katholieke gemeenschap in Mallorca, is een onderzoek ingesteld door het Duitse gerecht.Het zou gaan om verschillende gevallen van seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen, voor en tijdens zijn priesterschap.

De priester werkte van 2004 tot 2007 in België voor het zogenoemde katholieke buitenlandsecretariaat van de Duitstalige kerkgemeenschap. (belga/vsv)

Deutschsprachiges Mitteleuropa in Belgien

Österreicher, Deutsche, Liechtensteiner und Schweizer Katholiken kommen in das Gemeindehaus. Hier gibt es neben zwei Sonntagsgottesdiensten auch eigene Kinder- und Firmgruppen, einen Mutter-Kind-Kreis und eine Seniorenrunde. Rund 3.000 Katholiken werden in der Kartei geführt, 350 kommen wöchentlich zu den Sonntagsgottesdiensten. Pfarrer der Gemeinde ist der aus dem Schwäbischen stammende Walter Eith.

Er unterstreicht die Bedeutung der katholischen Gemeinde, aber auch deren Schwierigkeiten, denn "durch den steten Wechsel der Gemeindemitglieder, durch berufliche Veränderung oder nur kurzfristige berufliche Aufenthalte bei europäischen Institutionen", müsse man sich oft von lieb gewonnen Gemeindemitgliedern verabschieden. "Andererseits", so Eith, "belebe das die Situation".


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Vorwürfe gegen Ex-Pfarrer
Walter Eith wird in Deutschland des sexuellen Missbrauchs beschuldigt

Mallorca, 29. April – Walter Eith, ehemaliger Pfarrer der katholischen Gemeinde auf Mallorca, wird in Deutschland des sexuellen Kindesmissbrauchs beschuldigt. Damit weitet sich der seit Wochen in der Bundesrepublik diskutierte Skandal über Fälle von Kindesmissbrauch durch katholische Geistliche auch nach Mallorca aus.
Walter Eith wurde am Dienstag durch seinen Vorgesetzten, den Rottenburger Bischof Gebhard Fürst, angewiesen, seine Amtsgeschäfte mit sofortiger Wirkung bis zur abschließenden Klärung der gegen ihn erhobenen Vorwürfe ruhen zu lassen.
Der neueste Verdachtsfall gegen einen Pfarrer in Deutschland war am Dienstagabend durch einen Vorabbericht der „Stuttgarter Zeitung” bekannt geworden. Die katholische Kirche weiß demnach seit mehr als fünf Jahren von Missbrauchs-Vorwürfen gegen den Priester.
Laut Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart hat der Geistliche Anfang 2005 sexuelle Übergriffe in einem Fall eingeräumt. Die Verfehlungen, die sich auf den Zeitraum zwischen Ende der 70er und Ende der 80er Jahre beziehen, seien damals allerdings straf- und kirchenrechtlich schon verjährt gewesen.
Der Priester habe zu jener Zeit eine „ultimative Ermahnung” erhalten. Erneuten Handlungsbedarf sieht die Diözese jetzt nach jüngsten Gesprächen mit zwei Opfern. Medienberichten zufolge ermittelt auch die Staatsanwaltschaft. Eith war zuletzt Seelsorger im baden-württembergischenSulz.
Auf Mallorca stand Eith der deutschsprachigen katholischen Kirchengemeinde von 2007 bis 2009 vor. Im Oktober wurde er wegen interner Querelen in der Gemeinde vorzeitig abgelöst und war seit November 2009 wieder in seiner alten Heimatgemeinde Sulz-Dornhan tätig.
Eiths Nachfolger in der katholischen Seelsorge auf Mallorca, Dr. Peter Wehr, erfuhr nach eigenen Angaben am Mittwoch das erste Mal von den Vorwürfen gegen seinen Amtskollegen. „Ich habe keinerlei Kenntnisse von den Vorwürfen gegen Pfarrer Eith gehabt”, sagt Peter Wehr.
Auch das katholische Auslandssekretariat der deutschen Bischofskonferenz in Bonn, welches die Auslandspfarrer entsendet, war nach offiziellen Angaben ahnunglos. „Es war von den Vorwürfen nichts bekannt, als Pfarrer Eith nach Mallorca ging”, sagte die Pressesprecherin der deutschen Bischofskonferenz gegenüber MM.
Andere Personen im engeren Umfeld der katholischen Seelsorge zeigten sich nicht überrascht über die jüngsten Meldungen. Ob dort die früheren Verfehlungen aus Deutschland schon bekannt waren und ob der Streit innerhalb der katholischen Seelsorge im vergangenen Jahr mit den jetzt publik gewordenen Vorwürfen zusammenhing, darüber wollte sich niemand äußern.
Sichtlich erstaunt über die Missbrauchsvorwürfe gegen Walter Eith zeigte sich sein evangelischer Amtskollege auf Mallorca, Pfarrer Klaus-Peter Weinhold. „Ich höre heute zum ersten Mal von diesen Geschichten, und es betrübt mich, dass diese Fälle scheinbar kein Ende nehmen.”

NL luilekkerland Schengen Politie Rotterdam zweeg over pedofiele priester

Exiled’ MS patient risks arrest

A Irishman suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can’t come home because his medication includes cannabis-based drugs.

Noel McCullagh, originally from Ballinasloe, Co Galway, has been told by the Irish authorities that he will be arrested if he attempts to bring his legally prescribed medication, Bediol and Bedrocan, prescribed in Holland, into Ireland.

The social inclusion unit of the HSE have told the 33-year-old that he will be arrested if he attempts to come home to his family for a visit with the medication.

En priester worden met MS dat kan ook niet.

Gepubliceerd: 28 april 2010 12:06 Gewijzigd: 28 april 2010 12:08
Door een onzer redacteuren
NRC

Rotterdam, 28 april. De politie heeft de burgemeester van Rotterdam niet tijdig geïnformeerd over het verblijf in die stad van de Ierse ex-priester Oliver O’Grady, die in de Verenigde Staten werd veroordeeld wegens het verkrachten van kinderen.

Pas in januari dit jaar, toen O’Grady al anderhalf in Rotterdam woonde, werd burgemeester Aboutaleb op de hoogte gebracht. Dat heeft zijn woordvoerder vanochtend gezegd. De gemeenteraad heeft gevraagd om opheldering.

Openbare orde
De burgemeester is verantwoordelijk voor de openbare orde en veiligheid in zijn gemeente. Als mensen die een risico voor de samenleving vormen zich in de gemeente vestigen, dan moet hij hiervan op de hoogte zijn.

De politie wist medio 2008 al dat O’Grady in Rotterdam was, na een melding van Interpol. Net als de burgemeester werden organisaties en bedrijven in Schiedam en Rotterdam, waar O’Grady actief was, niet ingelicht door de politie. De ex-priester, die zich ‘Brother Francis’ noemde, was als vrijwilliger actief bij een Engelstalige kerkgemeenschap in Schiedam.

Hij vulde zijn priesterpensioen aan als medewerker van McDonalds in Rotterdam. De politie zegt geen aanwijzingen te hebben dat O’Grady zich in Nederland vergrepen heeft aan kinderen.

Ongewenste vreemdeling
Nadat burgemeester Aboutaleb wist van de veroordeelde pedoseksueel, nam hij contact op met het ministerie van Justitie om hem tot ongewenste vreemdeling te laten verklaren, aldus zijn woordvoerder.

Het ministerie weigerde, waarop de gemeenteambtenaren „indringende gesprekken” met O’Grady zouden hebben gevoerd. De ex-priester besloot een paar dagen later Nederland te verlaten.

Pedophile priest flees back to Ireland, where he is a free man

By NIALL O'DOWD, IrishCentral.com Publisher
Published Monday, April 26, 2010, 10:33 PM
Updated Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 10:39 AM

Notorious pedophile priest Father Oliver O'Grady is back in his old haunts in Ireland a free man after fleeing Rotterdam in Holland, where it was discovered that he was working with children and in a local Catholic church, calling himself "Brother Francis."

O'Grady abused hundreds of children during his thirty years in America as a priest. One victim was only nine months old. He served seven years out of a 14-year prison sentence before being deported to Ireland in 2003.
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Local police in Ireland say they can do nothing, as O'Grady has not commited any crime since he was deported from America in 2003. He is due to recieve
a large retirement from church when he turns 65 in June, according to Berg

.. Oliver O'Grady served as a priest at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Lodi, California from 1971 to 1978. He later served at Church of the Presentation in Stockton, California, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Turlock, California, St. Andrew's Parish in San Andreas, California, and St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Hughson, California

In 1993 he was convicted on four counts of "lewd and lascivious acts" on two minors, the brothers John and James Howard, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Attorney Jeff Anderson said the Howards were repeatedly molested between 1978 and 1991, from age three to 13.
Anderson claimed church officials knew that O'Grady had abused children as early as 1976 and 1984 but had done nothing.
Police had been informed of earlier charges and had declined to prosecute

NL: Notorious Irish pedophile priest discovered working with kids in Holland

Irish Central
Niall O'Dowd
Posted on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 02:42 PM

A notorious Irish pedophile priest who abused children for many years in America has been discovered helping out as a church deacon in Rotterdam under an assumed name and working a shelter for abused women and their children.

Father Oliver O'Grady served as a priest at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Lodi, California from 1971 to 1978. He later served at Church of the Presentation in Stockton, California, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Turlock, California, St. Andrew's Parish in San Andreas, California, and St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Hughson, California.

In 1993 he was convicted on four counts of "lewd and lascivious acts" on two minors, the brothers John and James Howard, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Attorney Jeff Anderson said the Howards were repeatedly molested between 1978 and 1991, from age three to 13. Anderson claimed church officials knew that O'Grady had abused children as early as 1976 and 1984 but had done nothing. Police had been informed of earlier charges and had declined to prosecute.

In 1998 a civil jury ordered the Catholic Diocese of Stockton to pay US$30 million in damages to the brothers. A judge later reduced the amount to $7 million.

O'Grady was paroled from prison in 2000 after serving only seven years, and went to Ireland after being deported from the United States.

He claimed to have been himself molested by a priest at the age of 10, and that he was involved in sexual abuse in his own family, both as perpetrator and victim. One of his victims was just nine months old.

The defrocked priest referred to himself as 'Brother Francis' in Rotterdam. He was thought to be living in Ireland but had recently disappeared. He was found by the Sunday Tribune newspaper.

The parishioners attending the Church of the Holy Heart, Christ Our Redeemer, had no knowledge about the man once described as one of the most dangerous pedophiles ever. The newspaper reported he was also working at a fast food restaurant where he helped organize children's parties.

He gained notoriety when the film "Deliver Us From Evil' was released about his case. It was when the documentary was released in Holland two weeks ago that he was recognized.

Parishioners told the Sunday Tribune he was "acting as a church deacon, helping the priest with the sacraments and organising the choir singing. On one occasion, when the priest was late, the defrocked cleric celebrated the mass until he arrived."

Fr Avin Kunnekkadan, on said he was unaware of O'Grady's criminal past.

"I did not know about his background. I did not know about his past at all," he said this weekend. An announcement was made at the church last week informing the congregation about O'Grady's criminal past.

Last week, O'Grady was also served with a civil action at his Dublin hostel by Californian attorneys Manly, McGuire & Stewart.

The firm specialises in clerical sex abuse cases and represents several of O'Grady's victims who are taking civil actions against him

Deliver Us From Evil: A Letter to the Catholic Church Dear Pope Benedict

The Huffington Post
26 april 2010
Amy Berg , Academy Award nominated director of Deliver Us From Evil

Dear Pope Benedict, Archbishop Mahony and all other members of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church,

Last Wednesday, a Dutch television station broadcast Deliver Us From Evil, my 2006 documentary about the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. A few days earlier, the subject of my film, notorious pedophile Oliver O'Grady, was contacted by Dutch police officers, tipped off by his neighbors who had seen an advertisement for the film. Over the course of his 30-year career as a Catholic priest in California, O'Grady abused hundreds of children and is now living on the lam in Europe. O'Grady quickly disguised himself and fled, taking a train from Rotterdam to Schtipol. He managed to catch the last plane out of Amsterdam on Aer Lingus at 20:45. Ironically, had the film aired a few days later, he likely would have been stuck in Holland due to the volcanic eruption the following day.

As you might imagine, after the film aired in Holland, residents of O'Grady's community in Rotterdam were outraged and contacted me and two of the advocates featured in the film, attorneys John Manly and Jeff Anderson. After I spoke to one Rotterdam family, I discovered to my dismay that O'Grady had been masquerading himself as "Brother Francis" and had been volunteering at their local parish. This is alarming on several levels, especially in light of the Church's recent commitment to screen all volunteers and laypeople working in the church in order to protect the children and the community. Needless to say, the community was terrified and is still in a state of panic and shock. Another family told me they had been very close friends with O'Grady and had even traveled with him along with their nine-month-old child.

John Manly and I then called the Irish Guarda, an investigatory unit in Ireland who confirmed that O'Grady was on a "watch list," which means he is a person they know about but is not monitored. They do not follow him or make him register on a regular basis, or take any measures to make sure he is not around children. They do nothing to protect the communities where he lives or visits. Whether or not they reported his history to the police in Rotterdam, or even knew he was living in Holland, is questionable at best. Whatever arrangements were made between the Church and the Guarda are similarly suspect. O'Grady was deported in 2003 from the US after serving several years in prison. Had he been kept here, at least he would have been on a sex offender registry so people would know to avoid him.

So since it seemed like nothing was going to be done, I called my two good friends in Dublin: Noel Donnellon and Daniel Holfeld. They are both respected artists and filmmakers in Ireland. Within two days (after a visiting his old haunts) they provided me with six photos of a bearded Oliver walking freely without a care in the world. He was perusing book stores, cafés, and living the life of Riley. For proof of his whereabouts, please see the photos below.

Pope Benedict and Cardinal Mahony, you should thank my friends and be ashamed of yourselves! As spiritual leaders you both knew what was happening, yet you continued to authorize him being moved from parish to parish while he committed unconscionable crime after crime. Why did you keep moving him around? Was it because your careers were blossoming and sick criminals like O'Grady could have discredited you for breaking the law and harboring a pedophile? Perhaps I shouldn't refer to this behavior in the past tense, as it appears that cover-ups like this are still actively going on. I find it interesting that you both have attained positions of great power within the church while you share a history of hiding information so crucial to the safety of children and their communities.

I ask you, Pope Benedict, how can a self-confessed, convicted pedophile continue to work with children in the church? I beg you to look at the full history of this man (it is detailed in my film) and take him away from places where he can harm even more children. I know you are already somewhat familiar with his story and his record, as you presided over the Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith for 25 years. That organization, designed to oversee morality in the church, was the group that was supposed to review police reports, parental pleas, and other legal documents pertaining to all accusations of sexual abuse. Despite the fact that O'Grady first confessed to abusing a child in the 1970's, he wasn't convicted until 1986. You chose to look the other way. The Church didn't even laicize him until almost 30 years later! You probably wish now that you had done something back then. Maybe if you took action as these cases were coming in, you could have cleaned the entire church up and become a hero for uncovering (as opposed to covering up) these incidents.

Those bad choices from the past 30 years are really starting to backfire. Today, even your loyal followers are starting to believe what victims and their advocates have been screaming about for decades. The lies, deceit and cover-up have caused a systemic breakdown. And I was really surprised a couple weeks ago as I listened to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's Secretary of State, say that it was a homosexual issue. We all know that there are no known studies linking pedophilia to homosexuality.

The good news? There is something you can do. Oliver O'Grady is set to turn 65 on June 5 of this year. He is due to receive a hefty annuity in exchange for his settlement in court. Why don't you take that money and give it to his victims or to a social program unrelated to the Church to counsel victims that are desperately in need of help? And you can put him away in a place where won't be able to harm children anymore. That is the challenge I put forth to you today.

And then, I hate to say it, but Pope Benedict, you should step down and face the charges in front of you. You have had a really good run, power-wise, but institutional power corrupts. Look at what happened to Ken Lay and Bernie Madoff.

Archbishop Mahony, your fate is another story. You really should be locked up behind bars. The only reason you are not incarcerated is because the justice department and district attorneys here in Los Angeles have been protecting you for years. How can you walk free after breaking laws, harboring pedophiles, and paying victims off in excess of $700 million--the largest settlement in history? Not to mention bribing people behind closed doors. Not only were you breaking the law, but isn't that stealing from your own parishioners?

It seems that the Church has begun to speak publicly and acknowledge the problem. I hope you both do the right thing, take negligent and corrupt priests and Church officials--including yourselves--out of power, hold them accountable for both their actions and inactions, and face the charges in front of you.

Amy Berg

NL Pedopriester werkte met kinderen in Rotterdam

Trouw
(en overige bladen, Parool, Elsevier, Limburger, Brabants Dagblad)

SCHIEDAM (ANP) - Een Ierse priester die meer dan twintig jongens en meisjes seksueel heeft misbruikt, is van 2008 tot februari dit jaar vrijwilliger geweest in de Heilig Hartkerk in Schiedam. Dat heeft de Ierse krant Sunday Tribune zondag bekendgemaakt.

De H. Hartkerk in Schiedam-Zuid heeft de berichtgeving over priester Oliver O'Grady bevestigd aan NRC Handelsblad en de Wereldomroep, die daarover maandag berichtten. O'Grady, die zich in Nederland omdoopte tot 'brother Francis', organiseerde volgens beide media ook kinderfeestjes voor een vestiging van een fastfoodketen in Rotterdam. De Heilig Hartkerk was maandagmiddag niet bereikbaar voor commentaar.
Parochianen van de communiteit Christus onze Verlosser, die Engelstalige diensten in de H. Hartkerk organiseren, herkenden in 'brother Francis' de veroordeelde pedofiel Oliver O'Grady na het zien van de documentaire Deliver us from evil. De met een Oscar genomineerde documentaire werd door de VARA op 14 april uitgezonden op de Nederlandse televisie.

Baby
Daarin blijkt dat de priester vanaf het begin van de jaren zeventig meer dan twintig kinderen heeft misbruikt in verschillende parochies in de Amerikaanse staat Californië. Een van de slachtoffers was in die tijd een negen maanden oude baby. In de documentaire komt O'Grady diverse malen aan het woord. De man werd veroordeeld tot zeven jaar cel en door de Verenigde Staten in 2000 teruggestuurd naar Ierland.

Volgens de Sunday Tribune verhuisde O'Grady in 2008 naar Rotterdam, waar hij onder meer als vrijwilliger voor de Missionaries of Charity werkte.
De parochianen zijn zich ,,kapotgeschrokken'' toen ze O'Grady herkenden in de documentaire, aldus NRC. De veroordeelde pedofiel O'Grady woont sinds februari weer in Ierland.

NL Oliver O’Grady, priest convicted of child sex abuse, volunteered in Dutch church; SNAP responds

Voice from the desert

For immediate release: Monday, April 26, 2010
Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach, CA, SNAP Western Regional Director (949) 322-7434 cell

After a conviction and prison sentence, a now-defrocked, notorious predator priest (who assaulted boys, girls and at least one infant), has re-surfaced helping at a Rotterdam Catholic church under another name.

Dutch Catholic officials should be severely disciplined for failing to do even the most simple background check on this dangerous predator.

It’s irresponsible for Catholic officials to recruit, educate, ordain, hire, train, transfer and shield predators, then ‘cut them loose’ when the heat gets too intense, letting them walk free and molest again.

Church hierarchy must, at an absolute bare minimum, promptly take three steps.

First, it must do everything possible to make sure that pedophile priests, nuns, brothers, bishops and seminarians get prosecuted effectively and imprisoned for as long as possible. (This means voluntarily turning over to law enforcement all files relating to accused predators and aggressively using church websites, pulpit announcements, diocesan newspapers, and parish bulletins to beg victims and witnesses to call law enforcement when accusations against a cleric surface.)

Second, the hierarchy must create and maintain an easy-to-use international, on-line directory of proven, admitted and credibly accused child molesting clerics so that this doesn’t keep happening again and again and again.

Third, church employees who recklessly let proven predators back around kids must be fired, so that other church employees get the message that endangering kids means you’ll lose your job.

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We’ve been around for 22 years and have more than 9,000 members across the globe. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
Contacts: David Clohessy (314 566 9790 cell, 314 645 5915 home), Barbara Blaine (312-399-4747), Mark Serrano (703-727-4940), Peter Isely (414-429-7259), Barbara Dorris (314 503 0003)

Pedopriester leidde kinderfeestjes

RTL nieuws

Een Ierse priester die meer dan 20 kinderen heeft misbruikt was tot begin dit jaar vrijwilliger in de Heilig Hartkerk in Schiedam. Dat melden NRC Handelsblad en de Wereldomroep.

De man, Oliver O'Grady, organiseerde volgens beide media ook kinderfeestjes voor een fastfoodketen in Rotterdam.
Parochianen in Schiedam herkenden de veroordeelde pedoseksuele priester van een documetaire die onlangs werd uitgezonden op televisie, Deliver us from evil. Daaruit blijkt dat hij in Amerika kinderen misbruikte. Een van zijn slachtoffers was een baby.
© ANP

Priest convicted of child sex abuse volunteered in Dutch church

Wereldomroep.nl

An Irish priest who was convicted for sex offences against children has been working as a volunteer at a church near the Dutch port city of Rotterdam. The priest, Oliver O'Grady, who was defrocked after his conviction, was helping as a deacon at Masses at the English-speaking Church of the Holy Heart, Christ our Redeemer. He also volunteered at a women's refuge centre.

Found guilty of sexually abusing two brothers, Mr O'Grady spent seven years in a prison in the US, after which he was deported to Ireland. He was also accused of having abused over 20 boys and girls, including a baby.

The church in Schiedam is serving the expatriate community in Rotterdam. A priest at the Roman Catholic church told the press that he did not know about O'Grady's background. Local parishioners told reporters that they were shocked when O'Grady's past history was revealed in a church announcement last week. The ex-priest was using the alias "Brother Francis", and his true identity was only discovered when Dutch TV aired a documentary entitled "Deliver us from evil" earlier this month.

'No contact with children'A spokesperson for the church in Schiedam told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that the man was there from 2008 until February 2010.

"The man came to our parish, came to the services and helped out with the music. He kept to himself. He was in no way in contact with children nor did he seek contact with them. He did work with nuns at a shelter for the homeless, but all he did was help feed people. He just wanted to go to church." Father Avin Kunnekkadan, one of the rotating priests who does services for the community, says "He was not a priest here and probably did not present himself as a priest when he came."

Dublin
The ex-priest had already left the Schiedam church when the news broke. He is said to live in a hostel in Dublin. Several of his American victims are taking action against O'Grady. The discovery of the ex-priest's past follows a series of revelations over the past weeks by Radio Netherlands Worldwide and NRC Handelsblad about child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests and nuns at boarding schools and care homes.

© Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Ierse pedofiele priester werkte in Nederland

Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
26 april 2010 - 1:43 pm

Een uit het ambt gezette pedofiele priester uit Ierland heeft enkele jaren in Nederland gewoond en met kinderen gewerkt. Dat meldt de Ierse krant The Sunday Tribune.Oliver O'Grady werkte van 2008 tot februari dit jaar als diaken in de Heilig Hartkerk in Schiedam-Zuid, waar ook Engelstalige diensten zijn. Hij liet zich daar 'Brother Francis' noemen. Verder deed hij vrijwilligerswerk bij een opvangcentrum in Rotterdam voor dakloze vrouwen en hun kinderen. Ook werkte hij in een Rotterdams fastfoodrestaurant, waar hij hielp bij de organisatie van kinderfeestjes.

De inmiddels 64-jarige O'Grady heeft sinds 1973 meer dan twintig meisjes en jongens seksueel misbruikt, onder wie een negen maanden oude baby. Dat misbruik had plaats in de Verenigde Staten, waar O'Grady in 1971 na zijn priesterwijding heenging. Hij zat daar zeven jaar in de gevangenis tot hij in 2000 werd uitgezet naar Ierland. Daarna kwam hij naar Nederland. Inmiddels woont hij in Dublin.

In 2006 werkte Oliver O'Grady mee aan de documentaire Deliver Us From Evil. Daarin vertelt hij over hoe hij de kinderen misbruikte. Toen de documentaire twee weken geleden op de Nederlandse televisie te zien was, werd hij herkend door parochianen en medewerkers van de Heilig Hartkerk.

Een woordvoerster van de Ierse rooms-katholieke gemeenschap in Schiedam, die anoniem wil blijven, zegt dat O'Grady alleen assisteerde bij de diensten en nooit in contact kwam met kinderen. Avin Kunnekkadan, een van de priesters die voorgaan in de kerk, zegt dat niemand destijds op de hoogte was van het pedofiele verleden van de Ier en dat ook niet bekend was dat hij uit het ambt was gezet.