Retired member of religious order seeks to prevent child sex abuse trial

One charge relates to an incident around Christmas time, when he is alleged to have come up behind the secondary school student, pushed her against a wall and assaulted her.

The first assault is alleged to have taken place in the room of an abbey. Two other alleged assaults took place when the girl was bringing communion for Sunday Mass to a convent. File photo

A retired member of a Catholic religious order is seeking a High Court order preventing his trial on charges of child sexual abuse from going ahead.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is facing four charges of sexual assault made against him by a woman, on dates between 1966 and 1969.