How Could You? Hall of Shame-Ireland-Foster Carer

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From Offaly, Ireland, a 42-year-old man “who as a teenager abused two boys in foster care in his family home has been given a four-year prison sentence with the final two and a half years suspended.

The 42-year-old man was convicted after a trial at the Central Criminal Court of four counts of oral rape on various dates between May 1995 and December 1998.

The accused, who was aged between 15 and 18 at the time, was also convicted of eight counts of sexual assault of the victim, who was then aged between 11 and 14.

He was further convicted of four sexual assaults of the victim’s older brother on dates in 1995 and 1996. The child in that case was aged from 12 and 13 at the time.

The offending took place in the accused man’s family home in a town in Co Offaly. The court heard the man now accepts the verdicts of the jury and said he is sorry.”

Offaly man who sexually abused two boys in foster care in his family home is jailed

[Breaking News Ireland 3/28/22 by DECLAN BRENNAN AND FIONA FERGUSON]

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