Ex-priest jailed for abusing boy at parochial house after plying him with drink

The priest, who was aged 33 at the time, had taken over as a father figure to the boy after the recent death of the boy's father.

Former priest Eamonn Crossan admitted taking the boy back to the parochial house in Kincasslagh on an unknown date between 1984 and 1985 and indecently assaulting him. Picture: North West Newspix/file

A former parish priest has been jailed after plying a 13-year-old boy with drink and abusing him at a parochial house in Co. Donegal.

The former cleric, Eamonn Crossan, admitted taking the boy back to the parochial house in Kincasslagh on an unknown date between 1984 and 1985 and indecently assaulting him.