UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph and Argus
By Claire Armstrong, T&A Reporter.
A Roman Catholic priest in Bradford has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
William Finnegan, 59, had revealed in his trial that he had secretly got married in 1999, despite having taken a vow of celibacy.
He was standing trial accused of forcefully kissing a girl, 17, and touching her bottom on Easter Sunday last year while he was serving as a priest at St Clare’s RC Church in Fagley.
The jury of nine women and three men today found him guilty, by a majority of 11 to one.
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