Former Scout leader (80) jailed for six years for molesting five young boys over four decades ago

Jim Harmon at Ennis Circuit Court

Gordon Deegan

A judge has jailed an 80-year-old former Scouts leader for six years and eight months for molesting five young boys, all scouts, in the 1970s and early 1980s.

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford imposed a 16-month prison term on Jim Harmon of Pinewood, Shannon, for each of the five boys he indecently assaulted over a six-year period between 1976 and 1981 at locations in Clare and Limerick.