UNITED KINGDOM
Wigan Today
LYNDA ROUGHLEY
04 April 2017
A catholic priest repeatedly sexually abused a young boy in his care “breaching that trust in a spectacular and horrific way,” it has been claimed.
The boy was just 13 and 14 years old when Father Michael Higginbottom allegedly began seriously abusing him in varied ways at a seminary in Up Holland.
The alleged victim “recalls the college as a cold, dark and forbidding place. He told police that for him it was the venue for ‘mental, physical and sexual abuse’,” claimed David Temkin, prosecuting.
Fr Higginbottom, now aged 74, of West Farm Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
He denies eight offences – four of buggery and four of indecent assault, alleged to have taken place between September 1978 and March 20, 1979.
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