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Wed 07 Jul 2010Ex-student priest jailed for rape of boy 35 years ago
A FORMER Redemptorist student priest has been sentenced to five years in prison, with the final 2½ years suspended, for raping a 10- year-old boy in Galway city 35 years ago.
Gerard Cleere (55), a teacher and native of Kilkenny town, was extradited from England last November, where he had been living at a Leicester halfway house for sex offenders, to stand trial in Galway.
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