UNITED KINGDOM/SPAIN
Daily Mail
By ANTHONY BOND
PUBLISHED: 12:25 EST, 24 August 2013
An 85-year-old Irish Roman Catholic priest suspected of sexually abusing three altar boys in Britain over a 36-year period has been arrested in Tenerife.
Francis Paul Cullen, originally from Dublin but with British nationality, was arrested in the town of Arona on the popular Canary Island.
He was detained on a European arrest warrant issued by Britain and will be taken to the National Court in Madrid.
As reported by thinkspain.com, is wanted in the UK for indecent assaults in a parish in southern Derbyshire between 1955 and 1991.
It is claimed the abuses took place in religious centres and churches.
The first alleged incident of abuse took place 58 years ago when Cullen was 27. It is alleged a seven-year-old was abused on 10 or 12 occasions until the age of 14.
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