Teachers charged on indecent assaults

Three former teachers who worked at the same school in Co Sligo have been returned for trial on charges of indecent assault.

Three former teachers who worked at the same school in Co Sligo have been returned for trial on charges of indecent assault.

Yesterday's at Sligo District Court, Judge Oliver McGuinness returned the men for trial to Sligo Circuit Court on October 9th.One 58-year-old man is accused of 61 charges of indecent assault, which are alleged to have taken place in a primary school in the county in the early 1970s.The second man is accused of 104 charges of indecent assault and these are alleged to have taken place over a five-year period from 1972 to 1977.The third man is facing 202 charges of indecent assault, alleged to have occurred between 1968 and 1977.