NORTHERN IRELAND
UTV
Paedophile former priest, Daniel Curran, has had his sentence for abusing young boys reduced by the Court of Appeal.
Curran pleaded guilty to five charges of indecently assaulting two boys between 1989 and 1994 and was jailed for four years last February.
He ranks as one of Northern Ireland’s most notorious clerical paedophiles with a catalogue of abuse that includes attacks on 13 boys over a 17 year period.
The pattern in which he abused those children was always the same. Curran was a Priest at St Paul’s in West Belfast in the late 80s. He built a friendship with the parents of altar boys and then took them to his isolated cottage near Tyrella Beach in County Down where he plied them with alcohol and sexually abused them.
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