Retired teacher charged with sexual assault of schoolboy in early 1990s

A 76-year-old retired primary school teacher was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually assaulting a nine-year-old schoolboy eight times in the early 1990s.

Detective Garda Donal O’Connell on Ballincollig Garda Station formally arrested Leo Hickey at Cork District Court at 10am yesterday morning.

The detective charged him with eight counts of sexual assault allegedly committed between November 1991 and June 1992 at Scoil Eoin boys national school in Ballincollig.