UNITED STATES
Irish Independent
CORMAC MCQUINN – 20 JUNE 2013
A CATHOLIC Church diocese in the United States is being sued by an alleged abuse victim who says an Irish priest sexually assaulted him in the 1980s.
Fr Francis Markey (84), was due to appear in court here over the alleged rape of a 15-year-old boy in 1968, but died in September before the case went to trial.
He had been extradited from the United States.
Fr Markey was suspended from his ministry here on three occasions and put in treatment programmes in the 1960s and ’70s over sex abuse allegations.
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