A civil servant who has made sexual abuse allegations against a 53 year old parish priest denied in Armagh Crown Court yesterday that he was a passive homosexual.
The 30 year old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was being questioned by a barrister representing Father Edward Kilpatrick, of Murlough, Co Donegal.
Father Kilpatrick is denying 19 charges of gross indecency and indecent assault on two altar boys dating back over 20 years to when he was a curate in Steelstown parish in Derry city.
The former altar boy denied that his charges against the priest were a "vile conspiracy to concoct a fabrication" between him and another complainant, a 33 year old teacher.
The man rejected a suggestion by Mr Eugene Grant QC, defending, that along with a younger brother and another boy he had engaged in a form of homosexual, activity - pulling drown trousers - in an area known locally as "Planters Fields".
Questioned about the breakdown of marriage plans in September, 1995, after a two year engagement, the witness denied this was because he recognised he would not be capable of consummating the marriage.
Earlier, the alleged victim told Judge Tom Burgess he was a practising Catholic. He spoke of being asked by Father Kilpatrick to sit on his knee in the sacristy of Our Lady of Lourdes Church following an evening Mass in the spring or summertime a year after he became an altar boy. "He put and arm around me and his hand" down the front of my trousers and underpants. He touched my private parts," the man claimed.
The hearing continues today.