Priest gave boy, 13, booze and abused him in parish home

Pervert jailed for two years over vile act

- MIRROR REPORTER

A FORMER priest has been jailed for plying a 13-year-old boy with a drink and abusing him at a parochial house.

Eamonn Crossan admitted taking the teenager to the property in Kincasslagh, Co Donegal, and indecently assaulting him.

John Judge Alymer imposed a three-year sentence, the final 12 months of which were suspended.

Crossan, now 69, was placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

Following sentencing, the Diocese of Raphoe released a statement in which Bishop Alan McGuckian apologized to the victim and his family.

It confirmed Crossan was a priest in the diocese from 1976. He was removed from ministry immediately after the complaint in 1998 and gardai and the HSE/Tusla were informed.