Need for sex offender rehab highlighted by Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal has spoken of society’s need to rehabilitate sex offenders in the case of a man jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy “hours” after completing a six-year sentence for another sexual assault.

John Prendiville, aged 50, of no fixed abode, had pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting the boy at a B&B in Co Kerry on May 12, 2012.

He was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment with the final two suspended on January 26, 2015.