Abuser has sentence cut for 1970s offences — Mayo

A man who was jailed for sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy in the 1970s has had his seven year prison sentence cut on appeal. The trial court heard that the man was 21 and living with his parents and grandmother when he abused the victim, who had come to stay in his home in the summer of 1978. The

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A man convicted of sexually abusing a child in County Mayo during the summer of 1978 has had his prison sentence reduced on appeal. The Court of Appeal found that the trial judge erred in principle by failing to apply any mitigating factors when sentencing. The man was found guilty by majority verdict in October 2018 of five counts of indecent assault and was initially sentenced to eight years and nine months, with…