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,…