NORTHERN IRELAND
Enniscorthy Guardian
Tuesday February 14 2012
A FORMER priest who abused a student cleric at St. Peter’s College seminary in Wexford and was labelled a ‘sexual predator’ by the judge at his trial, was jailed for ten years at Belfast Crown Court on Friday.
In sentencing 53-year-old James Martin Donaghy, Judge Patrick Lynch said that his litany of offences and other similar offences had ‘seriously compromised, perhaps irrevocably’ the trust in the priesthood in this country and others.
Donaghy, of Lady Wallace Drive in Lisburn, had been convicted by a jury of of a total of 23 sex offences, committed over a 17year time span against three victims who were all teenagers when the abuse first began.
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