BishopAccountability.org
 
  Priest Guilty of Sex Assaults on Boy

Irish Times [Ireland]
December 20, 2006

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2006/1220/breaking79.htm

A Co Waterford priest has been given a three year suspended sentence for indecently assaulting a schoolboy twenty years ago.

Fr Con Desmond (71), with an address given as a parish house Knockerra, Cooraclare in Co Clare, assaulted the boy while he was principal of a De La Salle national school in Waterford.

The court heard he abused the boy three times in his office and three times in a car on unknown dates between January 1 st, 1982 and June 24 th, 1983.

Desmond, who is currently suspended as a priest, was placed on a bond of good behaviour for four years.

His name was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years and ordered to pay compensation to his victim.

 
 

Any original material on these pages is copyright © BishopAccountability.org 2004. Reproduce freely with attribution.