31.   Both children had been abused.

32.   Both men were also charged with similar failures in seven other cases in which children were abused but did not die.

33.   A crucial question is what will happen with a proposed zero-tolerance policy, mandating that priests found to have abused children are removed from the priesthood.

34.   A key change was the recommendation to enforce the zero-tolerance policy retroactively by imposing strong sanctions against priests who abused children in the past.

35.   A small group had gathered outside the church because its pastor had recently been accused of sexually abusing children.

36.   A wife, for instance, cannot claim spousal privilege and refuse to testify against a husband charged with abusing their child.

37.   According to an investigative television program broadcast in Belfast, Smyth has a long history of sexually abusing children.

38.   Abused children.

39.   But he denied abusing the children.