IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Sonya McLean
Friday January 18 2013
A serial child abuser and former priest has received a three-year suspended sentence for molesting a ten-year-old boy 30 years ago.
Patrick Maguire (75) who is currently living under a strict regime with the Columban Fathers in Dalgan Park, in Navan, County Meath, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to indecently assaulting the boy in Dublin on dates between October 1, 1981 and May 1, 1982.
The ex-priest has 15 previous convictions for similar offences of abusing young boys and is a registered sex offender.
Maguire’s defence counsel Shane Costelloe BL told Judge Mary Ellen Ring that there are more charges pending against his client that are currently before the courts and other people have since made complaints to the gardaí.
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