The Irish Times·3 min read·medium
Former Christian Brother ‘likely to die in prison’ after being jailed for five years
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Colm Keena
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A former Christian Brother, Liam Coughlan, has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing nine boys in the 1980s. The judge noted the profound, lifelong damage inflicted on the victims and the community of Portarlington.
A former Christian Brother already in prison for sexually abusing school pupils in Kilkenny in the 1970s is “likely to die in prison”, a judge said on Friday, as he sentenced him to five years for sexual assaults on nine boys in a primary school in Portarlington in the 1980s.
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