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A 77-year-old former Spiritan priest has been sentenced to four years in prison, with the final year suspended, for the indecent assault of a schoolboy in a well-known Tipperary school.
Before sentence was handed down, Clonmel Circuit Court heard the victim would never forget the panic he felt as he stood outside Henry Moloney’s bedroom door, having been summoned there by the teacher, knowing what was going to happen to him inside the room.
Moloney, with an address at Kimmage Manor, a Spiritan care home, was accompanied by a Spiritan priest at today’s hearing.
His victim, who cannot be named, sat at the back of the court with a family member.
Earlier this month, Moloney had been found guilty on seven counts of indecent assault in Rockwell College, where his male victim was a first-year border in 1981 and 1982.
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