Sex offender gets 10-year jail term for molesting boy, 14

A convicted sex offender has been jailed for 10 years for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a Kerry town over two years ago.

Sex offender gets 10-year jail term for molesting boy, 14

John Prendiville, aged 49, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting the child, who had been in a residential care at the time, on May 12, 2012.

The court heard that Prendiville’s 33 previous convictions include five for sexual assault and four for failing to notify gardaí under the Sex Offender’s Act.

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