17/10/2013

Former Missionaries Teachers Charged With Indecent Assault Of Pupils

Three former teachers of a missionary order boarding school have been charged with the indecent assault of a number of pupils over a 20 year period.

The charges come at the end of a two year investigation carried out by gardaí, following allegations of abuse at Coláiste Chroí Naofa in Carrignavar, Co Cork from the late 1960s on.

80-year-old Donnacha MacCarthaigh, 69-year-old Tadhg Ó Dalaigh and 66-year-old Liam O’Brien were member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and teachers at the school when it run as a boarding school.

Former principal Donnacha MacCarthaigh,with an address c/o Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Western Road, Cork, was charged with a total of 42 counts of indecent assault on 14 boys at Coláiste Chroí Naofa in Carrignavar on various dates between 1969 and 1989.

Mr Ó Dalaigh, with an address at Woodview, Mount Merrion Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin, was charged with two counts of indecent assault on two boys at Coláiste Chroí Naofa on various dates between 1979 and 1985.

And Mr O’Brien, also with an address at Woodview, Mount Merrion Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin was charged with one count of indecent assault on a boy at Coláiste Chroí Naofa on a date between 1985 and 1986.

The three men were remanded to appear at Cork District Court on December 12th. An applications seeking a prohibition on identification of the men was refused.

(MH/IT)

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