Sunday, April 15, 2007
By Stephen Gordon
A Fermanagh priest and a second Northern Ireland man are to go on trial in Liverpool next month facing a catalogue of horrific child sex charges.
Billy Adams, originally from Newtownabbey, is accused of 13 rapes and a string of other offences against a 12-year-old girl.
Fr Jeremiah McGrath, from Rosslea, will go on trial alongside Adams at Liverpool Crown Court to face four related charges.
The pair were arrested and charged back in December 2005 and the trial is set to be heard on May 8.
Fr McGrath (63) is accused of three counts of facilitating child sex and one of indecent assault.
At a previous bail hearing in April last year, it was alleged that the Fermanagh priest gave Adams cash to groom the girl and to pay for accommodation in which the abuse took place.
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