IRELAND
Sunday World
A FORMER priest who raped and assaulted a child he had paid to do his gardening has received an eight-year prison sentence.
Denis Nolan (64), formerly of The Presbytery, Rathnew, Co Wicklow, is already serving a sentence for sexually abusing a different child six years ago and has since been defrocked.
Last March, a jury at the Central Criminal Court convicted him of six counts of oral rape, defilement and sexual assault in his home between 2005 and 2006.
The victim was aged between 10 and 11 at the time.
Nolan, who was a parish priest in Co Wicklow and served on the board of management of a local school, had denied the charges.
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