A former lay worker with the Church of Ireland has been jailed for 13
years for the rape and molestation of 14 young boys over the course of
40 years. Patrick O'Brien (76) pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
to 48 sample counts of indecent assault and three of sexual assault of
the boys.
O'Brien, of Knocklyon Road, Templeogue, Dublin, received a one-year
suspended sentence in 1989 for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy,
leaving him free to continue a litany of horror crimes for another 24
years.http://www.herald.ie/news/former-church-worker-is-finally-behind-bars-after-40-years-of-abuse-35206475.html
