Abuser offers house as compensation to victims

A 71-year-old Listowel man who the court accepted was in poor health and genuinely remorseful and who yesterday offered his house to his victims in compensation, has been jailed for abusing two boys.

Not to impose a custodial sentence would have meant the court would have failed in its duty, a judge said at Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee yesterday.

At his sentencing hearing, Michael Moran, of Colbert Street, Listowel, who walked with a stick and wore an ear piece, had offered to transfer his house, his sole asset, to his victims in compensation.