IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Liam Heylin
An elderly priest on trial for the alleged sexual assault of a schoolboy during sex education in a school office was found not guilty yesterday.
Judge Gerard O’Brien thanked the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court and discharged them from further jury service for a period of two years ,stating that it had been a difficult case.
The priest said during the three-day trial in Cork: “I never touched him sexually, improperly — never.”
The complainant said he was in third year in school when he was called to the priest’s office for sex education. He said the priest masturbated him.
He said: “I can clearly remember one of the questions — when a man gets an erection what caused it?”
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