Watch Olenka Frenkiel's investigation in full Former priest Bill Carney was named as one of the worst cases in Dublin's Catholic diocese in the Murphy report into clerical abuse there. However, for the last 10 years he has been free to live quietly in Britain. Newsnight's Olenka Frenkiel has investigated his case and tracked him down in the Canary Islands.
Carney used to invite children to his house in Ayrfield to watch videos |
All the children in Ayrfield, Dublin, knew fun-loving Father Bill Carney - not just the altar boys and those who met him through school, but members of the Scout troop he ran and the groups of local children he took swimming. His door was always open, there was a ready supply of Coke in the fridge and in the 1980s he had the very latest thing to lure youngsters in - a video player. Adults disapproved of his swearing and crazy driving, but the Catholic Church was still so trusted, no-one suspected the truth about him. Bridie Dwyer still lives in Ayrfield. Above the fireplace, with other family photographs is a picture of her youngest child, Paul, on his first Communion day. At the age of 13 Paul went with other boys to watch videos at Father Carney's house and to have a sleepover, Mrs Dwyer told me. But at 2am Paul unexpectedly returned home. "Thought you were going for a sleepover?" she recalled asking him as he pushed past her. "Didn't want to stay," he replied and shut his door.
Carney is accused of raping Paul Dwyer when Paul was 13 |
"That's when he'd been raped," Mrs Dwyer told me, "but I didn't know". What no-one, except Carney's bishop and the local police, knew was that the priest was a paedophile. The Murphy report into the cover up by the Catholic Church and Irish state of clerical sex abuse was published in November 2009. It described Carney as "a serial sexual abuser of children, male and female", saying that there had been complaints and suspicions "in respect of 32 named individuals" about him, adding that "there is evidence he abused many more children". 'Child in his bed' Michael Wheeler, who as a boy was one of Carney's altar servers, said that following the report a strange but vivid memory from when he was young suddenly made sense. He told me that when he was nine years old Carney was late for Mass one day, so, fearful that he might not turn up, he ran into the priest's house and called his name. "I heard a groan," he said, "and I saw in the bedroom, a boy, a little older than me, naked between the sheets. "This boy sat up, stared groggily at me, and fell back into the bed. I was terrified and ran out. As a child I couldn't understand why he was there. Now I know." We now know that complaints about Carney were diverted away from the Irish criminal justice system to Bishop James Kavanagh, a man described by the Murphy Report as someone with "a soft spot for Carney". Kavanagh did what he could to protect Carney from the law to avoid scandal for the Church. One conscientious policeman, praised in the Murphy Report, did investigate complaints and they came to court. But the press were kept away as Carney pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault and got probation. Six families were paid compensation and Carney was soon back working, with access to children. Paid to leave parish
Carney got married in Scotland in 2004 |
In its 40 pages on Carney, the Murphy report said that his was one of the worst cases the commission investigated and that the Church's handling of his case was "nothing short of catastrophic". "It was inept, self-serving and for the best part of 10 years displayed no obvious concern for the welfare of children," the report said. In 1992, the Church convicted Carney internally, under Canon law, of child sexual abuse. But this compulsive paedophile refused to leave the parish house. So the Church paid him £30,000 to go away. He moved to Cheltenham and then to Scotland, where he has lived for the last 10 years running a family-friendly guest house in St Andrews. Back in Dublin, it took Bridie's son Paul Dwyer 21 years to come forward, but in 2004 he told the police about his rape. The police said they had received two other complaints like his and sent the file to the Irish director of public prosecutions (DPP), but the DPP said there was not enough evidence to prosecute. "So the case stopped," his mother told me, "and, a couple of weeks later Paul committed suicide. He couldn't handle it any more. "He wanted Carney in court so he could ask him why, why had Carney raped him? That never happened and the way things are going, the way the police and the clergy are handling it now I can't see it ever happening," she added. No warnings given That same year, in Scotland, Carney got married. Newsnight has established that the Irish authorities knew his address but no-one, either from the Church or the Irish state, thought to warn his new wife about his past, or protect any children who might be at risk. Nothing was done to prevent him leaving, as usual, for his winter holiday in the Canary Islands, a popular destination for families with children, and no-one warned the local police. The Murphy report quotes a psychiatric assessment which says he suffers from a "psychopathic personality disorder". "His refusal to acknowledge his paedophilia," it said, "means the prognosis for a cure is bleak". Confronted over abuse I tracked Carney down in the Canary Islands, first at a restaurant on the sea front and then to the flat where he was staying, to ask about the abuse. He refused to comment on the Murphy report, saying he had not read it. He claimed that when he pleaded guilty to child sex abuse in 1983 it was not because he was guilty, but because: "I was told if I plead guilty the press would be kept away." When I asked "Why did you rape Paul Dwyer?" his response was: "Rape. I'd like to explain that. Put it into context."
Bishop James Kavanagh protected Carney from the law |
What kind of context, I asked, could excuse the rape of a child? But he did not answer. And when I asked "Are you still abusing children?" his answer begged more questions. "I haven't done that in 26 years and I have had no inclination," he said. But he refused to be drawn on whether that was admission that he had abused before. Assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Mahoney has been assigned the task of investigating whether anyone should be prosecuted as a result of the revelations in the Murphy report. These investigations, his office has said, are ongoing. In Britain, the Home Office said that because Carney's two convictions for indecent assault pre-date the 2003 Sex Offender's Act and took place in Ireland he would not be on the Sex Offenders Register and would pass unseen through the new stricter vetting procedures for child protection. Carney meanwhile remains free to disappear beneath the radar.
Jaycee Dugard, secuestrada con once años y que permaneció 18 años en cautividad, ha hablado por primera vez en público en un vídeo doméstico en el que aparece disfrutando de la vida cotidiana con su familia y en el que dice que aunque "está siendo un camino muy largo", está bien.
El vídeo, difundido hoy en exclusiva por la cadena ABC, muestra unas imágenes de Jaycee, de 29 años, con su madre, Terry Probyn, y su medio hermana, Shayna, de 19 años, con las que está cocinando galletas, montando a caballo y riendo juntas.
"Hola. Soy Jaycee" dice la joven a la cámara, vestida con vaqueros, camiseta negra y gorra rosa. "Quiero agradeceros vuestro apoyo. Estoy bien... Está siendo un largo camino, pero casi estoy llegando".
Esta es la primera muestra de la vuelta a la normalidad de la joven, después de que lograra escapar de sus captores en agosto del año pasado y pidiera ayuda en una comisaría en San Francisco (California, EEUU) tras estar retenida en un cobertizo durante dieciocho años.
Desde su liberación, Dugard ha estado viviendo junto con su madre y las dos hijas que tuvo en cautiverio, supuestamente con su captor Phillip Garrido, en un lugar en California que no se ha hecho público para proteger la privacidad de la familia.
Terry Probyn explica que han realizado este vídeo para que "vean lo felices que somos" aunque pide privacidad para que la familia pueda recuperar la normalidad.
"Como madre, ruego privacidad en esta historia tan pública", dice Probyn, de 50 años, que asegura que "cuando tengamos más información que compartir lo haremos".
Probyn agradece "todo el amor y el apoyo" mostrado en los últimos meses, pero insiste en que, ahora, es momento de estar solas "en este proceso de cura".
"Queremos compartir este milagro con el mundo pero tiene que ser en nuestros términos". "Por favor, dadnos tiempo para recuperarnos como una familia, sin los ojos curiosos de los fotógrafos y la prensa".
Dugard y sus dos hijas, Angel, de 15 años, y Starlit, de 11, vivieron recluidas durante su cautiverio en un cobertizo en el jardín trasero de la vivienda de su secuestrador, en Atioch, al este de San Francisco.
Garrido, de 58 años, y su esposa Nancy, de 54, fueron acusados de cargos múltiples por violación, actos lascivos y secuestro con objetivos sexuales contra Dugard, que fue raptada en la calle el 10 de junio de 1991, al sur de South Lake Tahoe, y ante los ojos de su padrastro.
Las niñas nunca fueron a la escuela ni visitaron un médico mientras duró el cautiverio, que finalizó el pasado 26 de agosto, cuando Dugard se presentó en una comisaría para identificarse y denunciar los hechos, después de un encuentro fortuito con la policía mientras se llevaba a cabo otra investigación.
Garrido fue condenado a 50 años de cárcel por una serie de agresiones sexuales en 1976, pero salió en libertad condicional en 1988, tras cumplir 11 años de condena.
En 1972, ya había sido acusado de violar a una niña de 14 años, pero se le retiraron los cargos por razones que no han trascendido.
 Malcolm Moore is the Telegraph's Shanghai Correspondent. He arrived in China in July 2008 after three years in Italy as the Telegraph's Rome Correspondent. Before that, he was the paper's Economics Correspondent.The article was based on Apple’s own investigation into the factories across the world that produce its range of computers, iPods, iPhones and accessories. Apple admitted that it had found instances of child labour, excessive working hours, environmental abuses, and criminally low wages at some of its suppliers.
The company started the programme after being coming under fire in the media in 2006 for the poor working conditions at one of its iPod assembly plants in China.
Since then, as its business and supply chain has grown, the company has also expanded its audit: from 39 factories in 2007 to 102 last year.
The article attracted a great deal of criticism, and a number of commentators pointed out that Apple deserves credit for voluntarily investigating and publishing the shortcomings of its factories.
“Please name any other tech company that is actually working to ensure that the working conditions in the factories where these components are made are at least tolerable and the workers are not exploited? Please list what Nokia or Palm or HTC are doing to ensure the parts that go into their phones are not fabricated by exploited workers or child labourers?” asked one commentator.
In its report, Apple also gave itself a pat on the back for its work. “During most of our audits, suppliers stated that Apple was the only company that had ever audited their facility for supplier responsibility.”
I agree that Apple deserves credit for being transparent, and I also agree that its competitors, such as HTC, the makers of Google’s Nexus One phone, could do a great deal more to comfort buyers that their products have been manufactured ethically.
However, if you read through the series of annual reports that Apple has published ( downloadable here), it becomes clear that the factories that the company is using are becoming worse, not better.
This year’s report highlighted 17 “core violations”, five more than last year and a proportionally greater number (accounting for the increase in the number of factories audited).
Some problems have got much worse. The percentage of factories that have the correct environmental permits and reporting systems has fallen from 73pc last year to just 57pc this year. The percentage of factories that are working to prevent occupational injury has fallen from 79pc to 61pc.
More factories are paying the right wages: 65pc compared to 59pc, and more factories are sticking to Apple’s guidelines on working hours: 46pc compared to 41pc. However, it is clear that when more than half of your suppliers are working their employees more than 60 hours a week (Apple’s guideline, which is already in breach of the widely-ignored Chinese labour law), there’s still work to be done.
And in terms of prevention of involuntary labour, emergency prevention, dormitory and dining conditions, ergonomics, chemical exposure and anti-discrimination, Apple’s factories are all scoring worse.
At the end of the report, Apple has put together a chart of how factories are improving, compared to last year and the year before. The problem is, the factories listed on the chart are different from the ones listed in last year’s report, and almost none of the examples tally.
The only factory which does seem to have been compared between reports (named as Facility I in the 2009 report, and Facility 3 in the 2010 report) has shown a deterioration.
It seems then, that while Apple is to be applauded for having reported on its factories, it is not doing enough to actually change what is going on at those factories. If the company really was dedicated to improving the lives of its workers, it would stop using factories that were found to be in breach.
In the 2010 report, Apple audited 102 factories. There were huge problems with many of them. A shocking 24 factories were found to not even pay their staff the minimum wage, of around 800 yuan, or £76, a month. But the company only terminated its contract with one plant, for falsifying its records. Until factories face more serious consequences, the only purpose of this report, in my opinion, is as a PR exercise.
On the 27th October, 2009 he requested my couch as a newbie for 8th November, 2009 and the following five days . During this time he asked to rent the big room, because he wanted to remain on the island till the beginning of February. From the 13th to the 22nd November, 2009 he traveled to Harald at Puerto de la Cruz and left his stuff in his 'new' room without asking nor informing me.
In the evening when he was back I remind him then of the fact to perform for the rents of a room on a payment. A usual guarantee he didn't want / could to produce, still I gave him the room, for his payment from now 'till the next 30 days, because I didn't want to dismiss him without linguistic attainment in a strange country. So he got 10 days for free.
Since this time he prepared only his meals, spoke no word and left every time the kitchen in wretched state. After a few days I didn't cleared up this.
When the monthly calculations for water, stream, gas, Internet and phone, came I pointed to the fact which costs are to be divided. Nevertheless, he meant that he already paid and (in England) rooms inclusiv of the costs are rented. Then he argued that he does not want to pay for my visitor from Couchsurfing.
The next day it turned out that the gas cylinder became empty, here he knows me there, and I answered that I didn't need it. In the end, he wanted to know the costs and I added up the fees to 150 € totally. He offered under hint of my visitors and the regulation in England 20 € as his contribution. To night urinating he used the hand wash basin. Without 'good morning' or other standards of the everyday life he found his language only if he wanted to know something. He used my personal things without asking. After some hints for my part to not slam at night all doors, he braked the Internet with downloads of several hours. Within two months he hasn't even cleaned his room, never mind has taken part in a cleaning the commune rooms.
Today I have given notice to him prematurely! With him it is impossible to live. Now I'm also not surprised that he has no friends, no family calls at Christmas and neither hosts write a comment. 
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He wanted Carney in court so he could ask him why, why had Carney raped him? That never happened and the way things are going, the way the police and the clergy are handling it now I can't see it ever happening 
