Man kept alleged abuse secret for years

A man who says he was sexually abused by a priest who was working as a music teacher while at secondary school in the 1980s told a court he didn’t tell anyone about the abuse until 2009 because he didn’t know how it would be received.

The man who says he was abused several times by Henry Moloney, aged 77, during a single school year in the 1980s, was advised by his counsellor to go to the gardaí after he disclosed details to her, he said yesterday at Clonmel Circuit Court.

Henry Moloney, with an address at Kimmage Manor in Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to eight charges of indecent assault offences .