IRELAND
Irish Independent
Conor Gallagher
March 9 2017
A former priest has been convicted of raping a child in his parish ten years ago.
The 63-year-old is already serving a lengthy sentence for sexually abusing a different child six years ago.
On Thursday, a Central Criminal Court jury convicted him of six counts of oral rape, defilement and sexual assault in his home between 2005 and 2006. The victim was aged between 10 and eleven at the time. The man had denied the charges.
The trial heard the priest befriended the boy before starting to invade his personal space and make sexual comments.
This progressed to several incidents of sexual abuse. At one stage the priest told the child to go home and “Google gay porn.” The boy’s father noticed this in the family computer’s internet search history and confronted the child.
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