Priest faces 14 sex charges against boy in Derby

UNITED KINGDOM
Derby Telegraph

By Martin Naylor

FOURTEEN of the 27 alleged sexual offences that a Catholic priest has been charged with relate to the time he was living in Derby, it has been revealed.

Francis Paul Cullen is accused of seven indecent assaults, six charges of gross indecency and one other serious sexual offence between 1963 and 1970, when he was living in the city.

Nine of the other offences allegedly took place while he was in Nottinghamshire between 1957 and 1962 and the final four counts allegedly happened between 1989 and 1991. The location of those four charges has not yet been revealed.

A police spokesman said: “Fourteen of the charges relate to one boy when Cullen was living in Derby.

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