A PAEDOPHILE priest who abused youngsters for nearly 20 years has been accused of breaching his Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).
Daniel Curran appeared at Downpatrick Magistrates Court docket final week charged with breaching his lifelong SOPO on August 12 this yr.
It’s alleged the 72-year-old, from Bryansford Avenue in Newcastle, breached the order by loitering at Tullymore Nationwide Exercise Centre with out permission of his designated threat supervisor.
Following a short listening to District Decide Amanda Brady adjourned the case to September 22.
The final time Curran was at courtroom, he smiled as he walked free after being handed a 200 hour neighborhood service order for sexually abusing a boy greater than 20 years in the past.
Curran indecently assaulted the 12-year-old throughout an in a single day keep at his household cottage in Tyrella, Co Down. Downpatrick Crown Court docket heard the sufferer didn't make any criticism to the police till 2015 and when he was questioned in regards to the allegations, Curran informed cops he was a “hopeless alcoholic” on the time and couldn’t particularly bear in mind the sufferer being on the cottage.
The pervert did nevertheless admit that he had “deepest regrets” for the quite a few bouts of sexual exercise that he “indulged in at the moment” however that he had not had a drink since July 1994.
Sentencing Curran in September 2018, Decide Piers Grant stated: “It was your typical modus operandi to take younger boys to this distant cottage the place you'll abuse them sexually.”
Decide Grant warned the sexual predator if any additional offences got here to gentle, the order was no indication “that you'll not obtain a custodial sentence” for them.
He informed the disgraced ex-priest, who was then going through intercourse abuse prices for the sixth time, his offending was a “gross breach of place and belief in your half”.
At an earlier listening to Curran pleaded responsible to a single of indecently assaulting a male little one on a date unknown between January 2 and 6, 1991. A registered intercourse offender since 1995, Curran has acquired 15 years of jail sentences — each fast and suspended — for related offences in 1977, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990 and 1991.