UNITED KINGDOM
Manchester Evening News
BY NICK STATHAM
Canon Mortimer Stanley, 84, who is also accused of indecently assaulting an altar boy, was parish priest at St Vincent De Paul RC Church, in Norden from 1977 to 2002
The alleged victims of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing nine young girls over four decades all gave similar accounts of his behaviour a court has heard.
Canon Mortimer Stanley, 84, who is also accused of indecently assaulting an altar boy, was parish priest at St Vincent De Paul RC Church, in Norden from 1977 to 2002.
He denies 19 counts of indecent assault said to have been committed during that time.
Several of the female complainants – all pupils at neighbouring St Vincent’s RC Primary School during Stanley’s ministry – described how they would sit on his knee while he would ‘bounce them up and down’.
The most serious allegations include him kissing and sexually assaulting the alleged victims.
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