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13 April 2017

Former Darlington Catholic priest, now living in Newcastle, on trial for sexually abusing a teenage boy

A CATHOLIC priest repeatedly sexually abused a young boy in his care breaching that trust in a "horrific way”, it has been claimed.
The boy was just 13 and 14 years old when Father Michael Higginbottom allegedly began seriously abusing him in varied ways at a seminary in West Lancashire.  The victim “recalls the college as a cold, dark and forbidding place. He told police that for him it was the venue for ‘mental, physical and sexual abuse’,” claimed David Temkin, prosecuting.

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15202027.Former_Darlington_Catholic_priest_on_trial_for_sexually_abusing_teenage_boy/