15 months for sisters' sex abuser; COURTS.Byline: GEORGE JACKSON A FORMER senior Housing Executive official has been jailed for 15 months for sexually abusing three sisters. Last December John Quigley John B. Quigley is a professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, where he is the Presidents' Club Professor of Law. In 1995 he was recipient of The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award. , 51, was given an 18-month jail sentence, suspended for three years, following his trial at Derry Crown Court. But that was referred to the Court of Appeal and last week Lord Justice Higgins replaced the suspended sentence A sentence given after the formal conviction of a crime that the convicted person is not required to serve. In criminal cases a trial judge has the ability to suspend the sentence of a convicted person. with a custodial term. He also ordered Quigley, of Maybrook Mews, Derry, to surrender himself within three days. His victims were attacked over an 11-year period starting in 1973. One of the sisters now suffers depression and requires long-term treatment. |
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