Bartholomew Prendergast pleads guilty to rape and abuse

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Bartholomew Prendergast pleaded guilty to rape and sexual abuse at Dublin’s Courts of Criminal Justice, reported on 30 July 2018.

The offences involved three girls aged between nine and 15 in west Waterford during the 1980s.

Prendergast was remanded in custody until 26 November, when he was due to be sentenced.