ELDERLY PRIEST HELD IN US OVER GALWAY SEX CHARGES

Date Published: 11-Nov-2009

An elderly priest living in the US is facing possible extradition to Ireland on charges of child sex abuse committed in Galway over 40 years ago.

81 year old Fr. Francis Markey, was arrested yesterday in South Bend, Indiana accused of raping a 15 year old boy on two occasions in Ireland in 1968.