UNITED KINGDOM
Rochdale Online
Reporter: Amy Westlake
Date online: 15 May 2014
Canon Mortimer Stanley, 82, a former priest at St Vincent de Paul RC Church in Norden, Rochdale, has been interviewed for the second time regarding historic sexual abuse.
Canon Stanley, who retired from St Vincent de Paul RC Church in 2002, was first interviewed last year.
Originally three women claimed that they had been indecently assaulted and sexually abused while pupils at St Vincent’s Primary School.
The women were under the age of 11 when it is alleged the offences happened. It is claimed that the incidents took place in a presbytery next to the school.
It is understood that since original reports, another six women have come forward with information.
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