The suspended sentence imposed on a convicted sex offender from Kilrush is set to be appealed by the Director of Public Prosecutions today.
64 year old Thomas Waters of Moore Street, Kilrush walked free from court with a suspended four year jail term last year after pleading guilty to charges of indecent assault between 1977 and 1982.
Former judo instructor Thomas Waters pleaded guilty to a total of 12 charges including nine counts of indecent assault in relation to one male and one charge each of indecently assaulting two young brothers in Ennis –
They were all aged around 12 years old at the time, as they attended his judo classes in the late seventies and early 1980s.
At his sentence hearing in June of 2009 retired consultant psychiatrist Dr Patrick O Beirne said a custodial sentence would be disproportionate and unhelpful while one of the victims told the court that he forgave the 64 year old for what he did to him thirty years earlier – the victim later wrote a letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions urging him to appeal the leniency of the suspended sentence.
The challenge by the DPP is due for hearing before the Court of Criminal Appeal in Dublin today.
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