IRELAND
The Anglo-Celt
Friday, 3rd March, 2017
A jury has failed to reach a majority verdict in the case of a priest from the Diocese of Kilmore accused of alleged sexual assault on a woman when she was a young teenager in the early 90s, and once in 2004.
After a three-day trial at Cavan Circuit Court, the defendant was remanded on bail to March 16 for directions from the DPP on the matter.
The defendant, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the alleged victim, had pleaded not guilty to a total of 23 charges when arraigned before Judge Martin Nolan at Cavan Circuit Court earlier this week.
The charges involved sexual assault on a female at two separate locations on dates between August 1991 and 1993, when the injured party was still in her early teens, and one charge of sexual assault on the same woman, dated in August 2004.
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