BALLINASLOE AUTHOR GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE SENTENCE FOR SEX ASSAULT

Date Published: 05-Oct-2009

A Ballinasloe native author has been handed down a suspended sentence for the sexual assault of a Kerry teenager in 2006. 58 year old Desmond Hogan pleaded guilty last year to the sexual assault of a 15 year old boy in Ballybunion.Judge Moran ordered Desmond Hogan, a native of Society Street Ballinasloe not to have any unsupervised contact with anyone under 18 and not live in Kerry.He was also placed on the sex offenders register.