Eight years in jail for sexual abuse of boy

A Leitrim man who sexually abused a boy in his community while calling him “a dirty little queer” has been jailed for eight years.

Damien Reilly, aged 39, was 17 years old when he began abusing the nine-year-old boy.

Reilly, of Bredagh, Carrigallen, Co Leitrim, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexual assault, oral rape, and anal rape of the boy. The victim was aged between nine and about 14 at the time of the abuse, which occurred between 1994 and 2000.