See http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/priest-charged-after-historic-sexual-8103605
Canon Mortimer Stanley returned from his home in Ireland to face the allegations at Bury Magistrates court on 13 November 2014
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"The Crown Prosecution Service authorised Greater Manchester Police to charge Canon Stanley, 82, after numerous complaints by former pupils at a Rochdale school.
He is accused of 17 charges of indecent assault on a girl under 14 between 1977 and 1988.
The clergyman, who is now living in Ireland after retiring from St Vincent de Paul RC Church in Norden, was first quizzed by police last year.
The
allegations involve ten victims. All the alleged victims were pupils at
St Vincent’s Primary School, which has been historically linked to the
parish.
Canon Stanley, who lives in Ballybunion, Kerry, had twice
travelled to Greater Manchester to answer police questions before
returning a third time to be charged.
The priest was originally
interviewed in November last year, and he returned in May this year to
be further interviewed under caution about the historic allegations.
Canon Stanley, who joined the church as a parish priest in 1972, retired to his native Ireland in 2002.”
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