FORMER CHRISTIAN BROTHER FOUND GUILTY OF LETTERFRACK SEX ABUSE

Date Published: 22-Mar-2013

A former Christian Brother has been found guilty by a jury of the sexual abuse of a boy in Letterfrack Industrial School during the 1960’s.

72 year old Robert Doherty, a native of Belfast, with an address at 266 Glenwood Estate, Dundalk, Co.Louth had denied six charges of indecently assaulting the boy on various dates between August 1965 and April 1967, in a bedroom beside the boy’s dormitory in the institution.

Evidence had been heard during the three-day trial at Galway Circuit Criminal Court that Doherty nicknamed his victim ‘Tuppence’ after telling him he was not worth tuppence.

The jury if six men and six women returned a guilty verdict on all charges this morning following three and a half hours of deliberations last evening and a further twenty minutes this morning.

Judge Rory McCabe remanded Doherty on continuing bail to await sentence on May 15th.