

Mobile phone evidence may be crucial as ‘more victims of Order of Malta rapist identified’
Scott Browne. Photo: Ernie Leslie

May 07 2022 02:30 AM
GardaÍ are carrying out investigations into a child rapist who “may have several more victims” linked to his work with the Order of Malta, the Irish Independent can reveal. Scott Browne (31) is serving a nine-and-a-half-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to a number of charges, including rape, after admitting subjecting two boys to assaults in 2018.
Ronald Bennett, he was a friend of Shine?
Father Ronald Bennett OFM is a Franciscan friar and a former spiritual director, sports master and bursar of Gormanston College, County Meath, Ireland, who was convicted of sexual assault against some of his pupils.
Yesterday, his co-accused, Jordan Murphy (22), who filmed a boy being orally raped after Browne had rendered the victim unconscious with a pain relief drug, was jailed for five-and-a-half years at the Central Criminal Court.
