IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Mark O’ Regan and Patsy McArdle
Thursday September 20 2012
AN 84-year-old Irish priest extradited from the United States to face sexual assault charges against teenage boys has died while awaiting trial.
Fr Francis Markey was due to appear in court in Monaghan later this year for allegedly raping a 15-year-old boy in 1968 during a religious pilgrimage to Lough Derg. It was claimed the priest subsequently abused the same teenager after the funeral of the boy’s father in Co Galway the following November. In November 2005 the man told his wife and a councillor after reading a copy of the Ferns Report into allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Ferns, Co Wexford, when it all came back to him.
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