Gordon Deegan. A father and convicted sex offender is to be immediately allowed to return home to live with his wife and children after spending more than two and a half years apart.
The man moved out of the family home in September as part of a Tusla safety plan for his three children aged under Now, after living alone away from the family since September , Judge Mary Larkin at a family law court sitting has been told that the man can immediately move back into the family home.
This follows the outcome of a positive risk assessment and solicitor for Tusla, Kevin Sherry told Judge Larkin that his instructions are to withdraw all proceedings in the case.
The parents in the case had given sworn undertakings that there would be no unauthorised access of the children for the father and the parents would not see each other. The man was convicted in of the sexual abuse in of two girls under the age of 12, and he received a four-year suspended prison sentence.
The sex offender had kept his sexually deviant past a secret from his partner and their children. In , a Tusla Interim Care Order ICO application to remove the children from the care of their parents was rejected after the parents gave the sworn undertakings. In rejecting Tusla ICO application, Judge Bernadette Owens said previously that none of the three children concerned or any child since the man's sex offence conviction from had made a disclosure of child sex abuse against the man.
