Seamus Marley had denied charges of assaulting the boys at a ‘republican safe house’
An alleged IRA member who raped two teenage boys at a “republican safe house” two decades ago has been jailed for seven years. with an address at Belfield Court, Stillorgan Road, Dublin, had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to charges of sexual assaulting and anally raping two boys in Co Louth on dates in the early 1990s.
During the trial Patrick Gageby SC, prosecuting, told the jury the two complainants lived in a large home owned by a “dedicated republican” and that it began to be used as a “safe house”. After the incident Marley warned him off telling anyone what had happened and said he “could be found dead on a border road”.
Marley has no previous convictions. The court heard that he is from a large family in Belfast and that his father was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries. “Marley was always lurking in the back of my mind,” the man said. He said in the years subsequent to the abuse he suffered panic attacks and experienced a “deep depression so black” it was hard to put into words.
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