an open letter to judge yvonne murphy

Murphy.

You stated recently that you had found no evidence of a paedophile infiltration of the Catholic Church.

You made this statement following publication of your report into child abuse within the Catholic Church.

Your statement implied that you had looked for such evidence of a paedophile infiltration of the Catholic Church.

You will be aware that I believe your report to have been a trumped up tissue of lies and manipulations designed to create the false impression in the public mind that sex abuse arises primarily at the hands of priests and religious, when in fact the vast preponderance of sex abuse victims, as you well know, occur in broader strata of our society at the hands of non religious people, that is to say in hospitals, sports clubs, health board facilities, and in the family home.

You will also be aware that I believe your report is part of a strategy by shadowy unaccountable liberal atheistic elements of our society hiding within the Judiciary, media, Civil Service and political spheres, who wish to destroy the Catholic Church as a locus of influence for the people of Ireland.

You will of course be aware that I consider your trumped up report to be a power play against the church and that the recent attempts by unnamed officials within the Department of Education to force the Catholic Church to withdraw from the management of Primary Schools are part of the same power play, as clearly you atheists regard educational institutions as a target for conquest in your ongoing culture war, for if you control what children are taught you will be able to control what they think, isn't that so Murphy, and to hell with the fact that Ireland's school system, the envy of the world, has been established and run by the Catholic Church on behalf of the people of Ireland since the inception of the State and for hundreds of years before that in the form of hedge schools, and for another thousand years before that through the aegis of sage priests and nuns, all the way back to Saint Patrick himself.

Murphy when you claimed that you'd found no evidence of a paedophile infiltration you were attempting to propagate a false notion, to wit that sex abuse is caused by traditional Catholic teachings and practices on celibacy.

This notion is refuted by scholarly investigators whose mindset is less ideologically driven than yours.

Sex abuse affects all sectors of society.

No family in Ireland is untouched by it.
Its most egregious manifestation is among non celibate people.

But you said you found no evidence of paedophile infiltration of the church.

And the clear implication was that you had looked for such an infiltration.

Bearing in mind that the police have stated paedophile rings exist in Ireland and operate at a level of secrecy that has left them completely unmapped, it is strange that you would pretend your cursory review of data amounted to a proper investigation as to the presence of paedophile infiltration in the church.

Nonetheless some such evidence exists Murphy.

I mean some of it is in the public domain.

In Sligo national school five teachers were simultaneously involved in the abuse of children.

Five of em Murphy.

Why if they stood together, it would almost make a ring.

Two of the five were some sort of monks in a church order.

Three of the five were ordinary teachers.

The five paedophiles obtained children from a local man who prostituted his children to them.

Now then Murphy.

Do you seriously tell me, that this paedophile ring is not in and of itself a priori evidence of the infiltration of Catholic Church institutions by paedophile rings?

There are other cases you might look at.

But this one is the most egregious.

The police have reviewed the data I have reviewed and like you have stated there is no evidence of a paedophile ring in operation at Sligo national school.

There are none so blind as those who will not see, eh Murphy?

Review this case again Murphy.

You might also check into any cases involving paedophiles within the Church who died shortly after being discovered.

I'm suggesting to you Murphy that some of these sudden deaths of paedophiles were a little too convenient.

I'm suggesting to you that paedophile rings cover their tracks by murdering any members who have been identified by the police.

One other thing Murphy.

If you wish to truthfully establish whether or not paedophile rings have infiltrated the church...

You need to interrogate every single individual who has been convicted of sex abuse.

And you need to get a tough police officer who knows something about interrogations to ask the convicted paedophiles the hard questions.

Take the most extreme cases and work your way down Murphy.

I would commend you to initiate your enquiries in the Wexford diocese of Ferns.

James Healy

PS: I am informed that your husband is Supreme Court Judge Adrian Hardiman, a self described bon viveur. Self described in that the online data base Wikipedia describes him as such, and the probability is that no one else in the Republic of Ireland except himself would be bothered writing an entry for Wikipedia about the useless boring little bastard. Bon viveur. That's a phrase meaning Hoor Master, isn't it? How every edifying. And very edifying to know that if I as a citizen of the Republic of Ireland wish to challenge the trumped up tissue of lies against the Catholic Church which is your report into child abuse, how very edifying to know Murphy, that I will be making my appeals to your smug debased witless husband. I mean, I don't want to go casting no aspoyshuns.