Retired Franciscan brother jailed for 11 years for historic rape of boy (13)
A retired Franciscan brother and convicted sex offender who abused a teenage boy while working as a teacher almost 30 years ago has been jailed for 11 years.
Seamus O’Callaghan (82) was convicted of one count of anal rape following a Central Criminal Court trial in May.
The boy was approximately 13 years old when the offending occurred at an Offaly secondary school, where he was a student, on a date between August 1998 and December 1999.
The court heard that the injured party wishes to retain his right to anonymity, but has no difficulty with O’Callaghan, of Gortroe, Corrandulla, Co Galway, being named in reporting of the case.
O’Callaghan has 11 previous convictions for indecent assault, relating to three different complainants – all teenage boys - at a different school in Co Offaly between 1978 and 1990.
He received a five-year sentence at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court in 2006 for this offending.
In a victim impact statement read to the court by an investigating garda,...
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