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10/12/2009
Ex-Christian Brother Jailed For Sex Assaults
A former Christian Brother has been jailed for two years for indecently assaulting 19 young boys at a school in Limerick, forty years ago.
Sean Drummond, 61, a married father-of-five from Broadford Drive in Ballinteer in Dublin, had pleaded guilty to 36 separate charges relating to the assaults at Creagh Lane National School (also known as Gerald Griffin Memorial School) in Bridge Street in Limerick, between 1967 and 1969.
Limerick Circuit Criminal Court heard how all the victims were aged between seven and ten when the abuse took place and that some of the victims had experienced a number of problems in later life as a result, including drug and alcohol problems and relationship difficulties.
Sentencing Drummond, Judge Carroll Moran said that the abuse committed by him had had a traumatic effect on the victims, who were at a vulnerable age at the time of the assaults.
He took into account Drummond's guilty plea, the fact that he led an isolated life at the time of the offences and would not have received much support in sexual matters and the fact that the offences were committed over 40 years ago.
The two-year sentence is effective immediately.
(KMcA/BMcc)
Sean Drummond, 61, a married father-of-five from Broadford Drive in Ballinteer in Dublin, had pleaded guilty to 36 separate charges relating to the assaults at Creagh Lane National School (also known as Gerald Griffin Memorial School) in Bridge Street in Limerick, between 1967 and 1969.
Limerick Circuit Criminal Court heard how all the victims were aged between seven and ten when the abuse took place and that some of the victims had experienced a number of problems in later life as a result, including drug and alcohol problems and relationship difficulties.
Sentencing Drummond, Judge Carroll Moran said that the abuse committed by him had had a traumatic effect on the victims, who were at a vulnerable age at the time of the assaults.
He took into account Drummond's guilty plea, the fact that he led an isolated life at the time of the offences and would not have received much support in sexual matters and the fact that the offences were committed over 40 years ago.
The two-year sentence is effective immediately.
(KMcA/BMcc)
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