Gardai told of Bill Kenneally abuse 'two years before confession’, probe told

Sex abuser Bill Kenneally said he “probably” would have confessed to abusing teenage boys if gardai had acted on information they received two years before he had initially spoken to officers about his crimes..The commission, chaired by retired judge Michael White, is also examining Basketball Ireland, as well as politicians and members of the Catholic Church.

Giving evidence on Wednesday, Kenneally also refused to accept that he ruined the lives of his victims, saying that he did not know why they took so long to come forward. Mr Motherway said the victim gave Kenneally’s name to gardai, saying he had been “sexually abused by Bill Kenneally”. Kenneally was asked whether, by that stage, would he have held his hands up and whether his position had changed in respect of his viewing of offending.He agreed that on the day he spoke to gardai on December 30, 1987, his admission to the abuse “had been coming for some time”.

On Wednesday, Kenneally was asked what was the reaction from the two gardai when they were told there was no sodomy involved.Kenneally was then asked if he thought the two gardai, Superintendent Sean Cashman and Inspector PJ Hayes, shared his view of the severity of his offending “because they viewed it through certain lenses you say existed in 1980s Ireland”.Mr Motherway asked if the gardai had “shrugged their shoulders” at that stage, to which Kenneally said that “society did in general”.

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