Child abuser to ‘serve’ his sentence at home

The sexual abuser of a child is to have his home turned into his prison cell for the next five years for a crime he committed 35 years ago.

Eugene O’Sullivan, aged 59, of Dun Orga, Dunmanway, Co Cork, was given a five-year prison sentence yesterday which, in effect, he will serve in his own home.

Judge Donagh McDonagh yesterday said it was with reluctance that he was suspending the five-year sentence but was doing so on the man’s undertaking to stay within the curtilage of his home for the next five years.