- Self - Presenter: Can you begin by telling us who you are and what you did that you are so ashamed of?
- Self - Catholic Priest: I'm Vincent Ryan, a Catholic priest. I'm ashamed because I sexually abused many boys.
- Self - Presenter: What were the ages of those boys?
- Self - Catholic Priest: From six to seventeen.
- Self - Presenter: And how many of them were there?
- Self - Catholic Priest: 33.
- Self - Presenter: As a priest, you know there's a hierarchy of sin. Is there anything worse than the sexual abuse of a young child?
- Self - Catholic Priest: I don't think so. I don't think so.
- Self - Survivor: Priests who offended were seen as having somehow fallen or been tempted. Very often the accusation was that they were tempted by their victims. Victims were blamed. Children were blamed for seducing priests. So victims were seen as the source of the corruption. The children who were abused were the evil, who tempted and corrupted the priesthood.
- Self - former police officer: The evidence as it was was pretty overwhelming. The jelly, use of lubricants. Even where tissue boxes were placed around.
- Self - Presenter: What's that?
- Self - former police officer: So what we have there is an instamatic camera.
- Self - Presenter: And he used that to take pictures of the boys?
- Self - former police officer: Yes, according to the boys statement, although I didn't find any of the photographs. That would have been an nail in his coffin.
- Self - Catholic Priest: I took photos of them and I took photos of one of them pretending I was having anal intercourse with him, yeah.
- Self - Presenter: And what did you do with the photos?
- Self - Catholic Priest: I destroyed them.
- Self - Crown Prosecutor: The evidence will be that the accused, in his position as the local Catholic priest, has in the past sexually abused 35 boys over a period of about 20 years.