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	Ex-Priest Patrick McCabe Faces Extradition Order By Justin Berton San Francisco Chronicle February 23, 2011 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/22/BAGG1HS8M2.DTL A federal magistrate in San Francisco on Tuesday ordered a former Roman Catholic priest extradited to his native Ireland to face charges that he sexually assaulted six boys from 1973 to 1981. Patrick McCabe, 75, worked in churches throughout the Santa Rosa Diocese from 1983 until his forced resignation in 1987. He was living in an Alameda condominium when Irish police arrested him in July. At least three former parishioners in Northern California have sued the Santa Rosa Diocese, claiming McCabe molested them. Robert Beles, McCabe's attorney, said he would appeal U.S. Magistrate Judge Nandor Vadas' extradition ruling. Unlike U.S. laws that put a statute of limitations on the prosecution of alleged sexual assaults, Beles said, there are no time limits in Ireland. "There's no logic or decency for sending a man to a country for something this country cannot punish him for," Beles said. "We wouldn't send a person to Saudi Arabia if they were going to get stoned." McCabe has denied the charges of sexual assault to Irish police. A 2009 report sponsored by the Irish government on the Dublin Archdiocese's handling of sexual abuse said Catholic officials had moved McCabe to the United States after they became aware of complaints against him. E-mail Justin Berton at jberton@sfchronicle.com.
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