NORTHERN IRELAND
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A disgraced paedophile priest, already serving a 10-year jail sentence for sex crimes against three victims has admitted sexually molesting a fourth young victim.
James Martin Donaghy had been due to go on trial at Belfast Crown Court on Wednesday but instead, defence QC Eugene Grant asked for the charges to be put to the sexual predator again.
Speaking in a calm, clear voice Donaghy, wearing a blue suit, white shirt and blue striped tie, entered guilty pleas to four charges of indecently assaulting a male child and a further charge of committing common assault against the same boy on dates between January and May 1989.
As he entered his guilty pleas, his victim’s mother wept quietly in the public gallery before fleeing the court in tears.
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