Ex-care worker jailed for abusing boy

A FORMER care worker who sexually assaulted an orphan on a regular basis in a State-run institution where he himself was physically and sexually abused as a child has been jailed for two years.

He is also to be placed on the sex offenders’ register for life and is classed as a ‘very high risk’ to children.

Patrick Murphy, of Lower Beechwood Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin, has a string of previous convictions in Ireland and Britain and is already serving an eight-year sentence for assaulting a male under the age of 16 and detaining and using a child for sexual exploitation.