{"id":307532,"date":"2026-01-28T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307532\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:30:12","slug":"west-cork-man-accused-of-grooming-and-sexually-assaulting-seven-boys-at-fast-food-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307532\/","title":{"rendered":"West Cork man accused of grooming and sexually assaulting seven boys at fast food outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Families were groomed to trust a 45-year-old man from West Cork to bring their young sons swimming, on cinema visits and to fast food restaurants, it was claimed by a detective on Tuesday as the man was charged with sexually assaulting seven boys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Detective Garda Paul Cogan said the boys were aged between seven and 12 when they were allegedly sexually assaulted on Saturday afternoon visits to a busy fast food restaurant in Cork City on occasions in August and September 2023. The accused was charged with a total of eight counts of sexual assault in respect of seven boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Families were groomed to trust a 45-year-old man from West Cork to bring their young sons swimming, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-307532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115971321091657007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}