NORTHERN IRELAND
Ulster Star
Published on 05/07/2013
A priest from Lisburn who is serving a ten-year jail sentence for sex crimes against three victims has been sentenced to two years for abusing a boy – however he will not serve any extra time in prison.
James Martin Donaghy, 55, originally from Lady Wallace Drive, admitted four charges of indecently assaulting the boy and one of common assault between January and May 1989.
Donaghy was told during sentencing at Belfast Crown Court on Friday that had these current offences been dealt with when he was originally sentenced, they would have been taken into consideration.
Given the “principle of totality”, Judge Kinney said, his sentence would run concurrently with the previous term.
The fact that the case had not been dealt with sooner was nobody’s fault, the judge said, and in particular there could be no criticism of Donaghy’s victim.
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