UNITED KINGDOM
Manchester Evening News
A Catholic priest is being investigated over alleged sexual abuse of children over a 20 year period.
Canon Mortimer Stanley, 82, who retired in 2002 from St Vincent de Paul RC Church in Norden, Rochdale , has been interviewed by police under caution.
Three women have claimed they were indecently assaulted and sexually abused while pupils at nearby St Vincent’s Primary School.
The women were aged under 11 when its is alleged the offences happened between 1980 and 2000.
It is claimed the abuse was committed in a presbytery next to the school.
Canon Stanley, who joined the church as parish priest in 1972, retired to his native Ireland in 2002.
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