A 70-YEAR old man has appeared in court charged in connection with the indecent assault and sexual assault of six complainants at two Catholic Church buildings, a Parochial House and two primary schools in the mid 1980s and in October 1993.At Ennis District Court, the accused man – with a Co Clare address – has appeared in connection with 16 counts of indecent assault and sexual assault against five male complainants and one female complainant.
The date range of 15 of the alleged offences is from 1982 to 1985 and a 16th count concerns an alleged sexual assault of a male at a Co Clare church on a date unknown from October 1st 1993 to October 17th 1993 contrary to Section 2 of the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) act 1990 as amended by Section 37 of the Sex Offenders Act.
