UNITED KINGDOM
Manchester Evening News
BY KATIE STOREY
A Catholic priest allegedly sedated a primary school boy before sexually assaulting him at a Norden church, a court has heard.
Canon Mortimer Stanley, 84, is accused of 19 counts of indecent assault over four decades while he was working at St Vincent de Paul RC Church.
A jury at Minshull Street Crown heard one of the victims, who was nine at the time of the alleged offence, claim Stanley came up behind him while he was getting changed and covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief soaked in a ‘chloroform-type’ substance.
The alleged victim says he then passed out slumped over a shelf.
He told the court when he woke up he was partially dressed and Stanley – still partially wearing his church robes – sexually assaulting him.
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