Victim Jonathan Randall says he wants legal action against Spiritans to represent ‘progress’

Jonathan Randall says he was ‘stonewalled’ by gardaí and DPP. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Jonathan Randall says he was ‘stonewalled’ by gardaí and DPP. Photo: Gerry Mooney

A man who was raped as a boy by a priest and fought the State to have his abuser’s name ­revealed is now suing a religious order.

Jonathan Randall (50) was four years old on when he was violently raped as a child while on holiday in Bettystown, Co Meath.