‘Prolific paedophile’ scout leader (80) jailed for molesting five boys over six-year period

A judge has jailed an 80-year-old former scout leader for six years and eight months for molesting five young boys, all scouts “who still believed in Santa” in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Harmon was aged 33 to 38 during the period of the indecent assaults which took place at Cratloe in southeast Clare, Holy Island on Lough Derg, and Garryowen and the Ennis Road in Limerick.Some refugees left without accommodation on Mount Street while a number set to return to Dublin city centreOne of the five, in his victim impact statement, said that he has carried what happened to him for decades.

Judge Comerford noted that one of the five informed his mother that Harmon – who lived in the Garryown area of Limerick at the time of his offending – had indecently assaulted him as far back as 1981 while in the scouts. The current “exhaustive” Garda investigation that resulted in Harmon’s guilty pleas involved gardaí taking 80 witness statements.

Two other boys were on the same scouting trip and in his victim impact statement, Mr Hickey – originally from Limerick’s North Circular Road – said: “I remember seeing the other two walking away and being powerless, knowing and dreading what was to come.” Sgt Donovan said that Harmon worked as ground crew for the RAF from 1960 to 1973 and worked with the now defunct semistate agency, Shannon Development, from 1973 to 2003.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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