{"id":308684,"date":"2026-01-28T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:32:08","slug":"former-cork-scout-leader-jailed-for-indecent-assault-of-boys-argues-he-should-have-had-two-separate-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308684\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cork scout leader jailed for indecent assault of boys argues he should have had two separate trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The argument is that due to the &#8216;circumstances of cruelty&#8217; involved in an attack he committed on one boy in a wooded area, the offences against this victim should have been the subject of a separate trial to that concerning four other complainants<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Former Cork scout leader jailed for indecent assault of boys argues he should have had two separate trials\" alt=\"Former Cork scout leader jailed for indecent assault of boys argues he should have had two separate trials\" src=\"\/cms_media\/module_img\/9898\/4949039_9_articlemedium_PV_20070221_20Court_2001.jpg\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"  \/> <\/p>\n<p>Noel Sheehan (pictured) was found guilty on 16 counts of indecent assault by a jury in April 2024 and sentenced by Judge Helen Boyle at Anglesea Street Courthouse in Cork to four-and-a-half years with the final six months suspended. File picture: Cork Courts Limited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The argument is that due to the &#8216;circumstances of cruelty&#8217; involved in an attack he committed on one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,9,10,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,42652,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-308684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","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-sexual-abuse","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115974867704806614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308684","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=308684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}