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“We have corrected history today. The inquest confirmed that the soldiers who came to the area supposedly to protect us … turned their guns on us,” said John Teggart, whose father, Daniel, was among the dead.
“It hasn’t actually sank in, it’s like a dream,” said Joan Connolly, holding a framed portrait of her mother, Joan Connolly, a mother of eight whom soldiers had branded an IRA gunwoman. “The joy and the peace and the mixed emotions that my mummy has been declared an innocent woman.”
Her father had not been able to identify his wife in the morgue because her face was mangled, said Connolly. “Her name has been cleared. We have got justice after 50 years. My daddy died a broken man.”
Baltimore Priest suspended from ministry amid allegations of child sex abuse
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By: WMAR STAFF
and last updated 2021-04-19 11:25:07-04
BALTIMORE â The Archdiocese of Baltimore is investigating an allegation of child sexual abuse involving a pastor at Corpus Christi Catholic Church.
Although he s denied the allegations, Fr. Martin H. Demek has been removed as a priest and suspended from the ministry, pending the results of an investigation.
The alleged abuse began in about 1989 at St. Bartholomew Catholic Church in Manchester, when the victim was approximately 11-years-old.
However, the Archdiocese was only made aware earlier this year.
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