SACKED BUT NO POLICE INQUIRY FOR 25 YEARS

now included his name in their official list of clergy who had “credible allegations of abuse” against them.

Adrian Alarcon, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, said: “Father Dunne was invited by the pastor to assist at Holy Angels Parish in Arcadia in late 1990 and continued in that capacity until summer 1991.

“The archdiocese was notified that he was ministering at that parish in March 1991 and he was granted temporary faculties until September 1991.

“Without permission from or notification to the archdiocese, Fr Dunne also spent time at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Santa Clarita from the summer of 1992 until January 1993.”

Ms Alarcon added: “Father Dunne was accused of sexual misconduct of a female minor in January 1993 while he was still at Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

“He was removed by the parish and the archdiocese from any ministry when the allegation was received in January 1993.”

Dunne is the second priest from the UK to turn up at the Holy Angels church after facing abuse allegations here. Father James Robinson fled to the US in 1985, while under investigation for sexually abusing boys in the West Midlands. He was later extradited, found guilty of abusing six boys and jailed for 21 years.

There is no known link between the two men.