Belfast priest goes on trial over alleged abuse in 1980s

NORTHERN IRELAND
RTE News

Catholic priest has gone on trial in Belfast accused of sexually abusing a young girl almost 30 years ago.

69-year-old Peter Donnelly from Castlewellan in Co Down, who was a curate at St Mathew’s Church in Belfast, denies six charges of indecent assault and one gross of indecency alleged to have occurred between July 1983 and August 1987.

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