IRELAND
Sunday World
A former priest is to be sentenced next week for raping and sexual assaulting a young boy whom he paid to do his gardening.
The 64-year-old man, who cannot be named in order to protect the anonymity of the victim, had denied two counts of rape and four of sexually assaulting the boy in Co Wicklow between January 2005 and September 2006.
The accused, who has since been defrocked, was found guilty by a jury and faces sentencing next Monday at the Central Criminal Court .
The court heard that the victim was aged around 13 at the time of the offences and had, from an early age, shown an interest in horticulture and animal husbandry.
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