IRELAND
Irish Examiner
By Liam Heylin
A girl aged around 10 was picked up in a car and sexually assaulted by a priest who said he was looking for directions in West Cork.
Yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, he confirmed a plea of guilty to the offence and was jailed for a year. The indecent assault happened in the mid-1970s.
Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin made an order in relation to any publication of the case that John Calnan, aged 76, of The Presbytery, 35 Paul St, Cork, could be identified but that nothing leading to the identification of the victim could be published.
The injured party was 10 or 11 at the time of the incident. The priest was aged in his thirties.
Detective Garda Maurice Shanley said gardaí received a statement of complaint against Calnan of an indecent assault occurring on an unknown date between June 1, 1974, and June 30, 1977.
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