UNITED KINGDOM
Derby Telegraph
A PRIEST being extradited from Spain by Derbyshire police to face 16 alleged offences of sexual abuse involving altar boys spent 18 years working on a Derby estate.
Francis Paul Cullen has been detained on a European arrest warrant issued by Britain and is due to appear in the National Court, Madrid, for extradition proceedings.
The alleged offences involving boys aged seven, eight and 12, are claimed to have happened over a 36-year-period, with the oldest one taking place 58 years ago and the most recent in 1991.
Father Cullen, now 85, came to Derby as the first priest of the newly-formed Catholic parish of Christ the King, Mackworth estate, and was then known as Father Paul Francis Cullen.
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