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86-yr-old retired surgeon given 20 months in jail for indecent assault of two teenagers he treated




Dr Michael Shine, a retired surgeon has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for the indecent assaults of two teenage boys who were treated in the mid 1970s.

The men now aged in the mid 50s both claim that the assaults had very detrimental affects on their lives.

Michael Shine, pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to eight charges of indecently assaulting six patients at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and at his private clinic, in Drogheda, Co Louth, over a 26 year timescale.

According to RTE News, today however a judge gave the retired doctor 20 months in prison with immediate affect – he wasn’t permitted the one week requested to get his affairs in order.

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