US abuse probe could be conducted in North

TESTIMONY will be obtained in Northern Ireland for a child abuse trial of a Florida-based anti-abortion protester , if Britain lets him travel to Belfast.

US Circuit Judge Ron Swanson on Tuesday agreed to send defendant John Burt, his lawyer and a prosecutor overseas at state expense to question the alleged victim, now 16.

She was 15 when allegedly molested in June at a home for troubled girls that Burt runs in Florida Burt has ties with gunmen and bombers who attacked clinics in nearby Pensacola.