IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Friday, April 17, 2015
Liam Heylin
The jury in the case of a former Christian Brother who denied charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s reached verdicts of not guilty yesterday after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation.
Louis Morgan, aged 66, of Glenmarian Rd, Portlaoise, denied four counts of indecent assault.
The jury gave their verdicts of not guilty on all four charges of indecently assaulting a boy, aged 8/9, in the mid-1970s at the Christian Brothers primary school on Blarney St, Cork.
In his charging of the jury, Judge David Riordan had referred to a witness who said he had been sexually assaulted by the same defendant when he was a boy in the same school.
“This evidence is not corroborative. He did not give evidence that he saw any of the acts complained of by (the complainant)… It was not produced to blacken the character of the accused. You are not to draw an inference,” the judge said.
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