A victim of serial paedophile John McClean has slammed the four year sentence he received for abusing as being “too lenient”.
The man, who is in his 40s, was among 22 men who finally got some justice last week when McClean was further sentenced to four years in prison for sexually and indecently assaulting them in Dublin’s Terenure College between the years 1971 and 1992. But speaking to this paper, the man, who McClean abused in the 1990s, said he cannot understand how the monster only received four years for abusing them – when in 2021 he received eight years in prison for abusing 23 others.
The victim, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “Why is the justice for the second batch of victims less than the first? He should have at a minimum received the same sentence again. I hope the DPP will appeal the sentence handed down for being too lenient.”
