A Dominican priest who betrayed the trust of a family in Cork to sexually abuse their son for years has been jailed for three years, with half suspended.

A Dominican priest was yesterday charged with 39 counts of sexually assaulting a boy at various locations in Munster on dates between 1986 and 1994.

SUPPORTERS of sex abuse survivors have expressed concern that a former Catholic priest convicted of molesting nine children is living within five minutes’ walk of a school.

A religious order tonight admitted that it failed to notify the Gardaí about abuse allegations against a priest who carried out a “reign of terror” in Newbridge College.

A Dominican priest who sexually assaulted a schoolboy in a “reign of terror “ at Newbridge College was today given a three-year suspended sentence.