{"id":15006,"date":"2025-09-11T19:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15006\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:30:06","slug":"man-89-appears-in-court-charged-with-44-counts-of-indecent-assault-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15006\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (89) appears in court charged with 44 counts of indecent assault \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">An 89-year-old man  has appeared in court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\">Co Laois<\/a> accused of historic sexual abuse offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The  man, who cannot be identified by order of the court, appeared before Judge Andrew Cody  at Portlaoise District Court on Thursday charged with 44 counts of indecent assault. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Det Gda Elaine Conlon, attached to Portlaoise Garda station, gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Det Gda Conlon said she charged the man on Thursday at 11.05am. His response to the charges, she said, was: \u201cI deny every one of them, they are complete lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Appearing for the man, solicitor Barry Fitzgerald said his client is  serving a prison sentence, due to expire in 2027. Mr Fitzgerald made an application for legal aid, which was granted by the judge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Judge Cody adjourned the matter to a date in October, when a book of evidence is due to be served on the man. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 89-year-old man has appeared in court in Co Laois accused of historic sexual abuse offences. The man,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,14234,61,60,43,14233],"class_list":{"0":"post-15006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-christian-brothers","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-portlaoise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}