Fr Charles Fenech this morning testified in a court
case in which the victims of sex abuse carried out by catholic priests
are calling for compensation. Fr Fenech, who is himself charged with
sexual abuse in separate proceedings, had failed to turn up when
summoned last week for the compensation case.
Laurence Grech and Philip Cauchi are calling on the
Constitutional Court to stop Mr Justice Joseph Micallef from presiding
over the civil case for compensation because he is involved in the
institution that abused them. The judge is the President of the
Dominican Order-owned Radju Marija. This, according to Mr Grech and Mr
Cauchi, puts his impartiality in question.
