2019-02-08 · Cork
Abuser who apologised in court to victims loses sentence appeal
Gerard O'Grady, aged 54, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two boys while babysitting them in the mid‑1980s. The victims, aged about 10 at the time, reported the abuse in 2016. O'Grady was sentenced on 6 March 2018 to six years' imprisonment, with the final two years suspended. The Court of Appeal upheld the sentence. In the appeal hearing, Mr…