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25/03/2009
Child Indecency Trial Underway In Dublin
The trial of a former Marist brother and teacher at a Sligo School on indecency charges has begun in Dublin.
Christopher Cosgrove, 66, has pleaded not guilty at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday to a total of 84 charges of indecently assaulting six boys aged between nine and 11 years of age.
The abuse is alleged to have taken place on dates unknown from 1968 to 1977.
The trial of Mr Cosgrove of Charlestown Road Ballyhaunis Co Mayo will continue today before Judge Frank O Donnell and a jury.
The case opens just days after a teacher in Northern Ireland was sentenced to two years in prison after being caught with 70,000 pornographic images of children,
The Co Down case saw 53-year-old Steven Vincent Colton, with an address at Ballygoskin Road in Crossgar, pleading guilty to 30 specimen charges of making indecent images of children at Craigavon Crown Court today.
He was a history and politics teacher at Sullivan Upper School in Holywood, Co Down, when police raided his home.
They had launched an investigation after his payment details were used on websites depicting child pornography.
Passing sentence, the judge said his conduct was "virtually unspeakable" and he was also banned him from ever working with children and instructed that his name be added to the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Colton will also spend three years on probation when he is released from custody.
(BMcC/JM)
Christopher Cosgrove, 66, has pleaded not guilty at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday to a total of 84 charges of indecently assaulting six boys aged between nine and 11 years of age.
The abuse is alleged to have taken place on dates unknown from 1968 to 1977.
The trial of Mr Cosgrove of Charlestown Road Ballyhaunis Co Mayo will continue today before Judge Frank O Donnell and a jury.
The case opens just days after a teacher in Northern Ireland was sentenced to two years in prison after being caught with 70,000 pornographic images of children,
The Co Down case saw 53-year-old Steven Vincent Colton, with an address at Ballygoskin Road in Crossgar, pleading guilty to 30 specimen charges of making indecent images of children at Craigavon Crown Court today.
He was a history and politics teacher at Sullivan Upper School in Holywood, Co Down, when police raided his home.
They had launched an investigation after his payment details were used on websites depicting child pornography.
Passing sentence, the judge said his conduct was "virtually unspeakable" and he was also banned him from ever working with children and instructed that his name be added to the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Colton will also spend three years on probation when he is released from custody.
(BMcC/JM)
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