By Breaking Belize News Staff (HP): The Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City and Belmopan has confirmed that Fr. Edward Gallagher, the Irish priest who pleaded guilty last month to child sex offences, served as a missionary in San Ignacio Town for about five years.
In a statement issued on Thursday, November 12, the diocese said Gallagher, a priest of the Diocese of Derry, was sent to Belize by that diocese and served here from approximately 1999 to 2004 in San Ignacio, Cayo.
The diocese said that to date, it has received no complaints or allegations of abuse against him in Belize.
“We are not treating that as the end of the matter,” the statement said. “The Diocese is reviewing its records of his ministry in Belize.”
The diocese said its first concern is for the children Gallagher harmed and for anyone in Belize who may have been hurt by him or by anyone else serving in the Church.
It said the Church is prepared to respond to such reports and offer meaningful support to victims.
Gallagher, 59, pleaded guilty in Londonderry Crown Court to 109 offences committed between 2023 and 2025. He is due to be sentenced on December 9.
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By Breaking Belize News Staff (HP): The Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City and Belmopan has confirmed that Fr. Edward Gallagher, the Irish priest who pleaded guilty last month to child sex offences, served as a missionary in San Ignacio Town for about five years. In a statement issued on Thursday, November 12, the diocese
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