Sex abuser gets 15-year ban from home town

A LIMERICK bachelor was banned from his home town until he reaches the age of 75, so that the younger brothers and sister of the boy he sexually assaulted will all have reached the age of adulthood.

Judge Patrick J Moran, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, imposed a three-year jail sentence on Patrick O’Brien, 60, from Tankardstown North, Kilmallock, Co Limerick.

He had pleaded guilty earlier this month to six counts of sexually assaulting a boy at two locations on various occasions between April 4, 2004 and September 1, 2006.