IRELAND
Irish MIrror
An Irish priest is being investigated by British police over alleged sexual abuse of children over a 20 year period.
Canon Mortimer Stanley, 82, who retired to Ballybunion, Co Kerry, in 2002 was recently interviewed by Manchester cops in Ireland under caution.
It comes after three women have claimed they were indecently assaulted by him when he was parish priest at St Vincent de Paul RC Church in Norden, Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
The women were aged under 11 when its is alleged the offences happened between 1980 and 2000 while they were pupils at nearby St Vincent’s Primary School.
It is claimed the abuse was committed in a presbytery next to the school.
Canon Stanley, who joined the church as parish priest in 1972, retired to his native Ireland in 2002.
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