IRELAND
RTE News
24 Apr 2018
A former priest who indecently assaulted two young girls as they made their first confession was given an 18-month suspended sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court today.
John Calnan, 79, now living at the Presbytery, Roman Street, Co Cork, sexually abused each girl as they went into a room alone with him to make their confession.
The girls were aged between six and seven years old at the time of the assaults which took place in the mid to late 1970s.
The former priest was also charged with sexually abusing a third girl during confession when she was 10 years old.
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