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An 83-year-old former Donegal teacher, Patrick Sharkey, is sentenced to six-and-a-half years for abusing 19 boys between 1970 and 1995—spanning 132 charges. The judge called it a “gross breach of trust,” describing his actions as premeditated and predatory, exploiting school trips and family homes to lure vulnerable children. Victims, some as young as seven, described lifelong trauma, with one saying Sharkey “took something out of me that never returned.” Despite a prior two-year sentence in Northern Ireland and his advanced age, the court emphasized the scale of harm, with Sharkey’s cooperation not enough to mitigate the staggering number of victims and offenses.

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