NORTHERN IRELAND
Derry Journal
Published on 10/05/2013
A Derry priest at the centre of a child sex abuse controversy a number of years ago has died.
Rev. John McCullagh (78) passed away suddenly in Maghera on Wednesday.
It’s understood Derry’s Diocesan hierarchy was first alerted to the allegations against Rev. McCullagh in 1994.
In 2000, the Co. Tyrone born priest made an out-of-court settlement when he paid £12,000 of his own money and wrote a letter of apology to a woman from the Derry Diocese who accused him of abusing her over a 10 year period, starting in 1979, from when she was just eight years-old.
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