NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A former pastor has been jailed for sexually abusing three young girls when he was a teenager.
Paul Gardiner, 52, of Cusher Road in Markethill, County Armagh, was sentenced to 11 months at Belfast Crown Court.
The offences against the girls, then aged seven, nine and 14, were committed on dates between January 1978 and March 1980.
The father-of-four had pleaded guilty to 13 counts of indecent assault.
He was also banned from working with children and placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
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