Priest accused of child sex abuse surrenders in US

A FORMER Irish priest accused of sexually assaulting six boys here between 1973 to 1981 has turned himself into the authorities in the US where he had been living in a plush waterfront suburb.

Patrick Joseph McCabe faces 10 counts of allegedly assaulting boys who are understood to have been aged under 14 years at the time of the abuse.

According to media reports in the US, McCabe, a priest in the Dublin Archdiocese from 1961 to 1983, was the subject of an extradition request filed by lawyers with the US Attorney’s Office in federal court in San Francisco last month.