Archbishop of Irish nationality being investigated by the Vatican for alleged abuse which began when victim was 14 years old

This may not be another case of institutional concealment. But how did the affair begin in a hospital and continue for two decades without institutional collusion?

The Irish Independent reports:

It was learned yesterday that Richard Burke, 60-year-old Archbishop of Benin, a city in southern Nigeria, stepped aside earlier this year pending the outcome of an ecclesiastical trial by the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog body, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The Kiltegan missionary archbishop from Fethard, Co Tipperary, who is believed to be in the United States, has not commented on the allegation. He is accused by Dolores Atwood, a 40-year-old married woman now living in Canada, of sexually abusing her when she was a minor, aged 14, and ill in a Nigerian hospital that he visited as a priest.
She also alleges that she suffered "emotional torture" during a 20-year secret affair that he conducted with her contrary to his vow of celibacy.

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