An English paedophile who came to Ireland to escape temptation pleaded guilty yesterday to sexually abusing a boy he was tutoring in Dublin. John Charles Paul (40) had five previous sexual abuse convictions in Britain stretching back to 1971 when he and other family members were charged with abusing each other, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was told.
Mr Michael O'Higgins, defending, said his client was a confirmed homosexual paedophile and had sought counselling on arrival in Ireland during 1994.
Paul, with a former address at The Cottage, Ballygoman, Barntown, Co Wexford, pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of the 10-year-old boy in 1996 and was remanded in custody to October 15th.
Garda John Butler told Mr Brendan Grehan, prosecuting, that Paul attended at the victim's home to give him private tuition.