Former rent boy, now 73, gets two years for sexually abusing Dublin boy in 80s

An elderly Dublin man who abused a boy 30 years ago has been jailed for two years after a court heard the victim was abused by a total of six paedophiles as a child.

Former rent boy, now 73, gets two years for sexually abusing Dublin boy in 80s

An elderly Dublin man who abused a boy 30 years ago has been jailed for two years after a court heard the victim was abused by a total of six paedophiles as a child.

Thomas Mooney (aged 73) was introduced to the victim through another man he met at a city centre amusement arcade. This man would take the child to a flat, abuse him and pay him IR£10 each time.

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