IRELAND
Irish Times
Barry Roche
A retired priest (83) has been found not guilty on two counts of indecently assaulting a teenage boy in a Cork school during the 1970s.
The jury made the unanimous decision on Friday after a two day trial at the Cork Circuit Criminal court.
The cleric, who can not be named for legal reasons, had denied one count of indecently assaulting the boy between September 1975 and June 1976, and a second count of indecently assaulting the boy between November and December 1976.
The complainant told the court that the first assault happened when he was 14-years-old and had started second year.
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