User talk:Illumina29

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Re. the image of Fr. Brendan Smyth, Image:Father_Smyth1.jpg, I've cropped the other people out of the shot, color balanced it and corrected it. Hope this is okay. Can you add licensing to it, possibly? Say maybe or something? It's a fascinating picture of a horrible person. Thanks for adding it to WP! - Ali-oops 07:04, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Photograph of Brendan Smyth
(copied from my talk page - Alison✍ 19:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC))

Ali-oops - I just discovered the recently posted (October 2006) photograph of Brendan Smyth on your entry of the Wikipedia article concerning Smyth. Smyth was known to me as Father Gerry during his assignment at Our Lady of Mercy (OLM) in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. His birth name is John Gerard Smyth. I am interested in communcating with the individual (Illumina29) who shared the photograph taken in 1965 at age 9 while Smyth was assigned to Our Lady or Mercy (OLM).

Can you please forward this message to Illumina29? My e-mail address is attymcg@aol.com

According to newspaper accounts, Smyth was first assigned to OLM in the summer of 1965. He left OLM briefly and was returned to Ireland in March of 1968 where he received aversion therapy at Purdysburn hospital in Belfast. According to Father Bruno Mulvihill, whose interview was captured in the UTV Counterpoint four part documetaries Suffer Little Children & Keeping the Faith, Fr. Smyth was returned to Ireland in 1968 because he had been molesting children in Rhode Island. Smyth was permitted to return to Our Lady of Mercy parish off and on through the 1980s and often stayed in the homes of parish families.

attymcg@aol.com (November 27, 2006) 24.151.72.124 17:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)