Sean Fortune – The predator priest who left a legacy of scars 25 years after his death
It is a quarter of a century since Fr Sean Fortune took his own life on the eve of standing trial for child sexual abuse charges. The Wexford priest had preyed on young boys for years, becoming the epitome of a clerical abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church. Over the next week, we will be examining the terrible legacy Fortune left behind him, including interviews with the priest’s victims, asking why recommendations from the Ferns Report have yet to be implemented and how the Vatican has yet to apologise.
Fr. Sean Fortune, the priest who was accused of child sexual abuse, and was later found dead in his house in New Ross, Wexford.
Wednesday, March 13, is 25 years to the day when notorious priest, Fr Sean Fortune died by suicide at his home in New Ross.
Days before he was due before Wexford Circuit Court on 29 charges of sexual abuse against eight young males – between June 1981 and December 1987 in Co Wexford – the serial abuser took his own life.
