CORPUS CHRISTI (TX)
Daily Echo
October 15, 2018
THE Catholic priest accused of raping a schoolboy in South Africa worked as an assistant priest in Boscombe’s Corpus Christi parish for a decade.
Father William MacCurtain, who lives in a home for retired Jesuit priests in Boscombe, is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy in Johannesburg during the 1980s.
The 84-year-old, a resident of the Corpus Christi Jesuit Community (CCJC) in Christchurch Road, has apologised to the alleged victim and said he “deeply regretted the pain” he had caused.
His apology sparked a number of calls for his extradition to South Africa to face charges.
Previously, the Daily Echo reported Father MacCurtain moved to Bournemouth in 1989 because he needed nursing care – and that he never had a ministry in the town nor links with the nearby Corpus Christi School.
However, Father Paul Nicholson, Assistant to the Provincial Jesuits Church in Britain, has now confirmed Father MacCurtain did indeed work as an assistant priest in Boscombe’s Corpus Christi parish between 1990, shortly after his return from South Africa, and 2000.
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