IRELAND
Irish Independent
Conor Kane
PUBLISHED
16/12/2015
A former priest who taught music in one of the country’s best known private schools has been given a four-year prison term for indecently assaulting a student in the 1980s.
Henry Moloney (77), with an address at Kimmage Manor in Dublin, appeared before Clonmel Circuit Court yesterday. The court previously heard Moloney told Pope Francis in a letter last year he had a history of “abusing young boys”.
He was given consecutive sentences totalling four years.
Moloney had denied all charges against him in a trial earlier this month but was found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault, an eighth charge having been withdrawn.
The court heard he had previous convictions for indecent assault.
The five-day trial heard that the abuse started within a week or two of the beginning of a school year in the 1980s at Rockwell College in Co Tipperary after Fr Henry Moloney, as he was then, asked the victim to join the choir.
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