SCOTLAND
BBC
March 8, 2018
A retired priest offered to take a lie detector test when he was accused of sexually abusing a five-year-old boy.
Father Francis Moore, 82, from Largs, was being interviewed by police about the allegations which referred to events more than 40 years ago.
Fr Moore, who was known as Father Paul, is on trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
He denies all the charges against him, including that he sexually abused three boys and a student priest.
He also denies committing a breach of the peace at Prestwick swimming baths on various occasions between 1 August 1995 and 31 July 1996, by repeatedly staring at the bodies and private parts of young boys and others in the pool.
The comments about undergoing a lie detector test came as Fr Moore was interviewed at Saltcoats police station on 8 December 2015.
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