Former councillor and solicitor jailed for sexually assaulting 8-year-old girl

John Hussey, Fermoy pictured at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. (Picture: Michael Mac Sweeney/Cork Courts Limited)

Former Fianna Fail chairman and mayor of Fermoy Urban District Council John Hussey, was jailed on Tuesday for five years for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl on a sleepover at his home almost twenty years ago.

The Circuit Criminal Court in Cork heard that Hussey, of Corrin View, Fermoy, sexually assaulted Hannah Beresford while she was at a sleepover after attending his daughter’s birthday party.

A retired solicitor, Hussey (67) was sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where he admitted sexually assaulting Ms Beresford, then just eight years old, in November 2003. 

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