Former Circuit Court judge Gerard O’Brien jailed for four years

Gerard O’Brien of Old School House, Slievenamon Road, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, was convicted last December at the Central Criminal Court of one count of attempted anal rape and eight counts of sexual assault in relation to six victims. Photograph: Collins Courts

Then a serving judge, O’Brien was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury last December of eight counts of sexual assault of six males, aged between 17 and 24 at the time of the offences, and of the attempted rape of one. The offences occurred on dates between 1991 and 1997 when O’Brien was a teacher at CBC Monkstown in Co Dublin.

The fact O’Brien was sexually assaulted himself in the past was “no excuse” because he was much older than his victims and had more experience of the world, the judge added. His victims would not agree with that assessment “and neither do I”, the judge said. O’Brien’s attitude was unreasonable, self-indulgent and lacked insight. The judge said he did not believe that O’Brien had come to grips with his offending behaviour.

His conviction followed an investigation by the Garda National Protective Services Bureau, lead by Inspector Jonathon Hayes, initiated in 2018.

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