Retired teacher jailed for less than a year for abusing pupil eight times

A 77-year-old retired primary school teacher was jailed yesterday for a disgraceful breach of trust where he sexually abused a 9-year-old boy eight times in the early 1990s.

Retired teacher jailed for less than a year for abusing pupil eight times

Leo Hickey, of Realt Na Mara, Skevanish, Innishannon, Co Cork, was sentenced to three years with the last two years suspended.

The sentence was backdated to February when a jury convicted him of all the sexual assault counts at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

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