Down Priest Faces Abuse Claims A Co down Priest Has Voluntarily Stepped Aside from His Duties Following an Allegation of Sexual Abuse, UTV, February 11, 2010

Down Priest Faces Abuse Claims
A Co down Priest Has Voluntarily Stepped Aside from His Duties Following an Allegation of Sexual Abuse.

UTV
February 11, 2010

http://www.u.tv/News/Down-priest-faces-abuse-claims/a1cf0b5e-ac00-402a-aab7-9456c59269ab

NORTHERN IRELAND -- Father Sean Cahill is the parish priest at St Malachy's Church in Castlewellan.

The alleged victim claimed he was abused by five priests while he was being cared for at the Nazareth House orphanage on the Ormeau Road in the 1970s.

Father Cahill has denied the allegation.

A spokesman for the diocese said: " they are aware of an allegation against a priest relating to the early 1970s."

They added: " the diocese is co-operating fully with police and social services".