Supt Tony Dowd, Clifden, said boys were sent to Letterfrack from the 1950s until it closed, for behaviour such as mitching school, or if their parents were poor and deemed by the courts to be unfit to care for them. ![]() The accused, who is still a stout, strong man given his age, was originally charged with 140 counts of buggery and indecent assault involving his victims over three decades but he pleaded guilty to 25 sample counts, including two charges of buggery, and 23 charges of indecent assault. From the time he arrived there in 1959 age 27, until the institution closed in 1974, he systematically molested, beat and buggered boys, aged from 11 to 14, who were sent to work in his kitchen. Maurice Tobin, North Circular Road, Dublin, was a cook in St. Suspended, at Galway Circuit Criminal Court today. ![]() Gregory Mackenden had played a kissing game with the boy and the girl and had later gone. A 71-year-old Christian Brother who pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of 25 boys at Letterfrack Industrial School over a 15-year period was sentenced to 12 years in prison, with the last four years A 27-year-old Suffolk man who had sex with two children when he was 11 has been given a community order.
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