IRELAND
RTE News
01 March 2005 16:55
A former headmaster of the Dominican College in Newbridge, Fr Vincent Mercer, has been given a three-year suspended sentence for sexually abusing boys in his care.
Fr Mercer, who is 58, admitted indecently assaulting eight boys aged between ten and 13 years over a period of seven years.
The assaults took place in their beds in the dormitories, in his office, in the college infirmary while they were sick and at a holiday camp run by the Dominicans.