A Kerry man jailed for the multiple counts of abusing young children will be supervised by the probation service until October 2016, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee made clear.

A 40-year-old sex offender, who breached conditions of a suspended jail sentence, gave an undertaking to comply with the court order.

PREDATORY sex offenders might consider Ireland a safe haven following a British scheme which allows concerned parents access “soft” information on suspected abusers.

SOME of Gustav Dahm’s victims and their families were in court yesterday and gave harrowing accounts of the effects the abuse had on them.

SOME of the victims of a child sex abuser were still ‘nervous’ about him living in the area while on bail awaiting sentence next October, a court was told yesterday.