David O’Brien pleads guilty to indecently assaulting boys

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David O’Brien pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting three boys at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 22 October 2019. The assaults occurred at Larch Hill in Co Dublin, Powerscourt and Roundwood in Co Wicklow, and other unknown locations between 1973 and 1978.

The three boys were under 15 when the assaults occurred, and the guilty pleas covered seven occasions. O’Brien was already in custody serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence imposed in 2015 for indecently assaulting six boys.