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	Charges Dropped against Priest Accused of Abuse Bolton News March 11, 2011 http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/8905048.Charges_dropped_against_priest_accused_of_abuse/ CHARGES have been dropped against a Catholic priest who was arrested on suspicion of abusing a child. Father Geoff Hilton, who is the priest at St Osmund’s in Long Lane, Breightmet, was arrested on November 6 in connection with an alleged incident at a church in Manchester in the 1980s. He had been on bail since his arrest, but police have now decided to take no further action. The allegation related to a boy aged eight or nine and was alleged to have happened in St Bernard’s RC Church, Burnage, where Fr Hilton served before moving to Bolton. The 54-year-old former policeman has been put on administrative leave by the Catholic Church since his arrest.
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