Former scout leader jailed for abuse of boys

A former Dublin Scout leader who sexually abused six young boys on camping trips in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s has been jailed for four and a half years.

David O’Brien, 63, would open the boys’ sleeping bags, reach under their pyjamas, and fondle their privates.

At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, O’Brien, of Benburb St, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of indecently assaulting six males in Dublin, Kilkenny, and Cork between 1975 and 1980. He has no previous convictions.