A mentally handicapped man who sexually abused boys in Kerry and Dublin had his sentence hearing fixed yesterday for May 28th before Mr Justice Flood.
In March the 50-year-old man pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to three offences between July 31st and September 1st, 1993. The State withdrew two other charges.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to committing an act of gross indecency on a youth then aged 15, in Kerry. He admitted a second charge of indecently assaulting the victim and he also admitted indecently assaulting a 12-year-old boy in Dublin.
Mr Martin Giblin SC, defending, said his client appeared to be suffering from a mental handicap and seemed to have a mental age below that of an adult. He had been reared in institutions and had worked as a builder's assistant. He was now unemployed and living in a west of Ireland hostel run by a religious order.
The man was granted his own £100 bail on condition he reside in the hostel and report to the Garda twice weekly.