Rita Ryan gets suspended sentence for indecent assault

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Rita Ryan received a fully suspended two-year sentence for indecent assault at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 10 November 2020. The offences involved an 11-year-old girl at a Dublin orphanage between December 1971 and October 1974.

Ryan had pleaded guilty to two sample charges. Judge Martin Nolan ordered her to pay the victim a further €15,000 within a year, after she had €15,000 available in court as a token of remorse.