Tag Archives: Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy

An 80-year-old Clare man has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for indecently assaulting his two daughters during the early 1970s. The man, who cannot be named in order to protect the anonymity of his victims, was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault after a week-long trial at the Central Criminal Court last month. He had pleaded not guilty to 18 counts of indecently assaulting his daughter in a house and later a caravan in County Clare on unknown dates between January 1971 and December 1973. She was aged between 11 and 13 at the time. The man had also denied indecently assaulting another daughter twice in 1980 at a caravan in County Clare, when she was aged 11 or 12. During his trial, he made admissions to one of these offences. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy said he was effectively treating that admission as a plea of guilty. The man was found not guilty …

The trial of a Clare man accused of raping and sexually abusing a teenage boy who he used to give money to has collapsed today (Tuesday) following a legal issue. The 70- year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had pleaded not guilty to three counts of anal rape and two counts of sexual assault of the youth at various locations in the county between 1999 and 2000. The jury at the Central Criminal Court in Dublinwas told during the opening prosecution speech that the man admitted to gardaí that he touched the then 14 year old’s penis on one occasion but claimed that nothing else happened. He told gardaí during interview that he used to give the boy money for food because he felt sorry for him. The alleged victim gave evidence that he was raped repeatedly in the man’s car on various occasions and that he was sexually abused in his house. The jury was discharged …