IRELAND
Newstalk
Francesca Comyn
11:12 Friday 22 March 2013
A former priest who sexually abused two 13-year-old boys in the 1970s in Dublin and Kildare has received an 18 months jail sentence.
77-year-old Patrick McCabe with an address at Alameda in California told gardai one of the boys who he abused in a car outside a school in 1977 met the ‘requirements’ of his ‘fetish’. The other boy was abused in a house adjoining the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin at the time of the visit by the Pope in 1979.
The laicised priest has previously received an 18 months sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for indecently assaulting young boys. This sentence has been back-dated to June 2011 when went into custody following his extradition from California to meet abuse charges.
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