UNITED KINGDOM/IRELAND
Mirror
Oct 07, 2014 By Neal Keeling
A retired priest may have to be extradited to face a string of sex charges involving schoolgirls.
Canon Mortimer Stanley, 82, is facing 17 charges of indecent assault on girls under 14 after numerous complaints by former pupils at a Rochdale school.
The clergyman, who is now living in Ireland after retiring from St Vincent de Paul RC Church in Norden, was first quizzed by police last year.
The allegations involved ten victims and are said to have taken place between 1977 and 2002. All the victims were pupils at St Vincent’s Primary School, which has been historically linked to the parish.
Canon Stanley, who lives in Ballybunion, Kerry, has twice travelled to Greater Manchester to answer police questions.
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