‘A monster has been taken off our streets’

The victims of a Waterford-based paedophile who was yesterday jailed for 14 years and two months have urged anyone else who suffered abuse to come forward and tell their story.

Bill Kenneally, of Laragh, Summerville, Waterford City, pleaded guilty last December to 10 sample counts from a total of 74 counts of indecent assault on 10 boys, aged 13 to 16, over a four-year period between October 1984 and December 1987.

Delivering 10 consecutive two-year sentences at Waterford Circuit Court, Judge Eugene O’Kelly said the accountant’s actions bore all the hallmarks of the systematic behaviour of predatory paedophiles in that the abuse suffered by each teenager was very similar in nature.