{"id":32862,"date":"2012-02-13T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32862"},"modified":"2012-02-13T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:06:52","slug":"ireland-second-cleric-to-sue-prime-time-on-sex-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32862","title":{"rendered":"Ireland: Second cleric to sue &#8216;Prime Time&#8217; on sex allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second cleric is suing <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Irish<\/a> public service broadcaster <a title=\"Independent : Second cleric to sue 'Prime Time' on sex allegation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/second-cleric-to-sue-prime-time-on-sex-allegation-3017111.html\" target=\"_blank\">RTE for libel<\/a>, after they accused him of\u00a0child abuse. Former Archbishop\u00a0Richard Burke claims he was named in the same Prime Time Investigates programme as\u00a0Father\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship: IRELAND: GOVERNMENT WEIGHS IN ON TV PRIEST LIBEL ROW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/12\/ireland-rte-primetime-reynolds-libel-inquiry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Reynolds<\/a>,\u00a0whom\u00a0<a title=\"RTE : Fr Kevin Reynolds, RT\u00c9 defamation case settled\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2011\/1117\/reynoldsk.html\" target=\"_blank\">RT\u00c9 alleged<\/a>\u00a0had fathered a child while a missionary in Kenya. Burke admitted to having\u00a0a sexual relationship with a woman whilst working in Nigeria, but claimed she was an adult at the time and that the relationship was consensual. &#8216;Mission to Prey&#8217; claimed that the cleric had abused a minor.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second cleric is suing Irish public service broadcaster RTE for libel, after they accused him of\u00a0child abuse. Former Archbishop\u00a0Richard Burke claims he was named in the same Prime Time Investigates programme as\u00a0Father\u00a0Kevin Reynolds,\u00a0whom\u00a0RT\u00c9 alleged\u00a0had fathered a child while a missionary in Kenya. Burke admitted to having\u00a0a sexual relationship with a woman whilst working in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[241,7360,165,4293,4087],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32865,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32862\/revisions\/32865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}