IRELAND
RTE News
A 79-year-old former priest has been given a four-year suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a pupil at a Co Wexford school in the 1960s.
The former priest pleaded guilty to eight counts of gross indecency against a boy who was 14 at the time the incidents started.
Wexford Circuit Court heard the accused assaulted his victim at night 12 to 14 times over a two-year period.
His victim told the court by way of a victim impact statement that it had taken him decades to go to the authorities.
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