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	Judge Halts Trial of Retired Parish Priest on Abuse Charges Irish Times October 7, 2011 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1007/1224305389503.html The High Court has halted the trial of a retired parish priest accused of sexually assaulting a young boy more than 40 years ago. The 78-year-old priest had applied to stop his trial on four counts of indecent assault and eight counts of buggery against the then 11-year-old boy. Mr Justice John Hedigan said the case fell into the “wholly exceptional” category of cases in which prohibiting a prosecution was justified due to “missing evidence and the antiquity of the events”. All of the alleged acts were stated to have been committed between November 1967 and October 1969.
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