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Thu 12 Dec 2009Sex assault sentence 'harsh'
A priest who provided a character statement during a sexual assault trial in Co Kerry has described the seven year sentence handed down as “extremely harsh”.
Speaking on Newstalk’s Breakfast Show this morning Castlegregory parish priest Fr Seán Sheehy said he had no regrets in supplying the character reference to Dan Foley (35) who was jailed yesterday for five years for sexually assaulting a woman in Listowel.
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