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09/01/2008
Child Sex Abuse Highlighted
While a convicted sex offender in Londonderry has admitted to further charges of child sex abuse, three other men have been charged with making and possessing indecent images of children.
As part of this separate, international investigation, 10 men were arrested by detectives on Tuesday working on a worldwide probe into child abuse.
Houses were searched in the greater Belfast, Larne, North Down and Mid-Ulster areas.
As well as the three who have been charged, four others are still being questioned, while three men have been released on bail.
Meanwhile, the jailed Derry sex offender, William McCafferty (60), whose address was given as c/o Maghaberry Prison in Lisburn, has pleaded guilty to a further 14 charges of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old girl and guilty to two charges of committing an act of gross indecency against her.
McCafferty, a former milkman, was due to have gone on trial before a jury of eight men and four women after he initially denied the offences.
The trial would have lasted one week but when he was re-arraigned before Judge Desmond Marrinan he pleaded guilty to the charges.
McCafferty admitted sexually abusing his victim on various dates between October 1985 and October 1989.
In January 2003 he was jailed for 12 years when he admitted committing a number of sex offences against three other young girls. After sentencing for those offences, he was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for an indefinite period.
Judge Marrinan returned McCafferty into custody and ordered the preparation of a pre-sentence report before he sentences him on February 7.
(BMcC)
As part of this separate, international investigation, 10 men were arrested by detectives on Tuesday working on a worldwide probe into child abuse.
Houses were searched in the greater Belfast, Larne, North Down and Mid-Ulster areas.
As well as the three who have been charged, four others are still being questioned, while three men have been released on bail.
Meanwhile, the jailed Derry sex offender, William McCafferty (60), whose address was given as c/o Maghaberry Prison in Lisburn, has pleaded guilty to a further 14 charges of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old girl and guilty to two charges of committing an act of gross indecency against her.
McCafferty, a former milkman, was due to have gone on trial before a jury of eight men and four women after he initially denied the offences.
The trial would have lasted one week but when he was re-arraigned before Judge Desmond Marrinan he pleaded guilty to the charges.
McCafferty admitted sexually abusing his victim on various dates between October 1985 and October 1989.
In January 2003 he was jailed for 12 years when he admitted committing a number of sex offences against three other young girls. After sentencing for those offences, he was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for an indefinite period.
Judge Marrinan returned McCafferty into custody and ordered the preparation of a pre-sentence report before he sentences him on February 7.
(BMcC)
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