NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A former Belfast priest has denied sexually abusing a girl while she was member of his parish in the 1980s.
Peter Donnelly, from Drumaroad Hill in Castlewellan, County Down, is a former priest at St Matthew’s Catholic church in east Belfast.
The 71-year-old is accused of sexually assaulting the girl in the parochial house of the church over a period spanning from July 1982 to August 1987.
At Belfast Crown Court, the pensioner denies all seven charges against him.
He has been charged with six counts of indecently assaulting the girl, and a further charge of gross indecency with a child
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