UNITED KINGDOM
Wigan Today
A Catholic priest was today due to appear before magistrates to face historical sex abuse charges relating to his time at a former Wigan seminary.
Father Michael Higginbottom, who worked at St Joseph’s College in Up Holland throughout the 1970s, has been charged with six offences relating to two victims under the age of 16.
The 72-year-old, of West Farm Road, Newcastle, is due at Ormskirk Magistrates’ Court today having been charged last month following an investigation by Lancashire Police.
He is currently suspended from his post at a church in the North East, a spokesman for the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle told the Evening Post.
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