Former Irish Olympic swimming coach and child abuser George Gibney jailed for 15 years
- More than half a century after he started sexually abusing children, and enjoyed prestige as Ireland’s Olympic swimming coach before fleeing to the United States, George Gibney has faced justice.
- The 78-year-old was sentenced to 15 and a half years in prison at the central criminal court in Dublin on Monday for abusing four young female athletes in the 1970s and 1980s.
- It was the culmination of a decades-long effort by victims, police, journalists and others to track down and extradite Gibney from the US.
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- More than half a century after he started sexually abusing children, and enjoyed prestige as Ireland’s Olympic swimming coach before fleeing to the United States, George Gibney has faced justice.
- The 78-year-old was sentenced to 15 and a half years in prison at the central criminal court in Dublin on Monday for abusing four young female athletes in the 1970s and 1980s.
- It was the culmination of a decades-long effort by victims, police, journalists and others to track down and extradite Gibney from the US.
Sources: Guardian