NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Independent
By George Jackson and Trevor McBride
Thursday June 28 2012
A Donegal priest said his life had been “devastated” by allegations of indecent assault against a 14-year-old girl, after being cleared of the charges yesterday.
Fr Eugene Boland, originally from Moville in Co Donegal, was found not guilty of five counts of indecent assault at Derry Crown Court.
He had denied claims that he inappropriately touched the teenage girl in the parochial house at St Joseph’s parish in the Galliagh area of Derry between June 1990 and June 1992.
The girl wept in court as the verdicts were read out after almost four hours of jury deliberation over the course of two days.
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