UNITED KINGDOM
Belfast Telegraph
24 MARCH 2014
A Dublin-born former priest who spent more than two decades on the run in Spain is to be sentenced in the UK for sexually assaulting seven children.
Francis Paul Cullen, 85, was extradited to the UK last year to face charges of indecent assault and other sexual offences after being traced to Tenerife.
Cullen, who was located with the help of the Catholic Church’s safeguarding board, pleaded guilty last month to 21 charges relating to offences committed between 1957 and 1991.
The crimes against children aged between six and 16 took place in the UK while Cullen was a priest in Mackworth and Buxton, both Derbyshire, and Hyson Green, Nottingham.
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