72-year-old Fr. Peter Kennedy faces allegations of child abuse over 25 years ago from a number of people.
In 2003, €325,000 was paid to Brendan Shannon of Co. Sligo in a High Court settlement with the Kiltegan Fathers after allegations of abuse were made against Fr. Kennedy.
Mr. Shannon was only 13 when the priest arrived in the parish. According to the victim the abuse took place over a number of months in 1982 as his father was dying from cancer and being cared for at home.
The victim's mother maintained that the abuse only came to a halt when she walked in on an attempted assault.
Kennedy moved to London in the late 1980s and worked as a taxi driver while still under the supervision of the Kiltegan Fathers. He went to Brazil on a British passport in 2003 and took up a job as an English teacher in Sao Paulo.
During this time gardaí from the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Investigation Unit at Harcourt Square in Dublin had already spent more than 18 months investigating allegations made against Fr. Kennedy.
Brazil and Ireland don't have an extradition treaty but on St. Stephen's Day Brazilian federal police confiscated his residency card on the basis that it was not in order and deported him to London later than evening, where he remains in custody pending extradition to Ireland.
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