{"id":53101,"date":"2025-04-19T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/catholic-priest-appears-in-court-charged-with-attempted-child-sex-offence\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T12:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T12:40:44","slug":"catholic-priest-appears-in-court-charged-with-attempted-child-sex-offence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/catholic-priest-appears-in-court-charged-with-attempted-child-sex-offence\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic priest appears in court charged with attempted child sex offence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A Catholic priest has appeared in court charged with attempted sexual communication with a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Fr Edward Gallagher, of Orchard Park, Lifford, County Donegal, appeared via video-link at a special hearing of Londonderry Magistrates&#8217; Court, sitting in Dungannon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer told the court he could connect Mr Gallagher to the offences which were alleged to have taken place between 2 and 17 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The priest spoke only to confirm his identity and that he understood the charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">No application for bail was made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The case will return to court in May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c175xlzyw24o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic priest has appeared in court charged with attempted sexual communication with a child. Fr Edward Gallagher, of Orchard Park, Lifford, County Donegal, appeared via video-link at a special hearing of Londonderry Magistrates&#8217; Court, sitting in Dungannon. A Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer told the court he could connect Mr Gallagher to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[9163,5710,6557,607,813,595,11312,5150,1718],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53103,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53101\/revisions\/53103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}