IRELAND
Wexford People
Wednesday March 28 2012
AN ELDERLY FORMER priest who taught at St. Peter’s College, has been charged with eight counts of gross indecency during the 1960s.
Seamus O’byrne (78) with an address at The Presbytery in School Street appeared at Wexford District Court on Monday.
The former parish priest of Cushinstown who was dismissed from the priesthood in 2005 on the order of the Pope, faces eight counts of committing acts of gross indecency with a male at St. Peter’s College in Summerhill on dates unknown in 1964, 1965 and 1966. The alleged victim cannot be named for legal reasons. Garda David Beale gave evidence of arresting the defendant on Sunday and charging him with the offences.
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