A man in Limerick, Tom White (76), is jailed for six years after being found guilty of sexual abuse of a neighbour’s child dating back several decades. The court convicts him on 10 counts of indecent assault involving a girl during the period from 1971 to 1976. The allegations relate to abuse that occurred when the victim was a child and the offender was a neighbour. Both reports describe the conviction and the sentence as arising from charges concerning events approximately 50 years earlier.
One outlet also notes that White marries and later has three children, and that he did not come to the attention of the Gardaí during the intervening years between the alleged incidents and the legal proceedings. The available reports focus on the long gap between the offences and the conviction, the number of counts on which he is found guilty, and the resulting custodial sentence.
