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Sex abuse church elder McConaghy 'too fat for jail'

7:28 pm - 12/03/2009
A 66-year-old church elder convicted of indecently assaulting a child will not be sent to jail because his obesity means his health is "precarious".


John William McConaghy, from Urbal Road, Dervock, County Antrim, was found guilty of indecent assault.
Judge David Smyth at Antrim Crown Court suspended a two-and-a-half year term.

He said McConaghy's lack of mobility, ulcerated legs and need for frequent dressings amounted to "wholly exceptional circumstances".

The jail term was suspended for three years and a £10,000 fine was also imposed.

During a 10-day trial in October McConaghy's victim, who is now 44, said she was indecently assaulted from the age of around 10 until she was 18.

'Not happy'


She said that she was assaulted so often it became "the norm". She said McConaghey's abuse "petered out" as she reached adulthood and struck back at him, scratching his face as she fought him off. Speaking after the sentencing the woman said was "not happy" he was freed, but nevertheless understood the reason why.

"I am happy with the sentence he got, I think that was a fair sentence, but I am not happy with the suspension of it, but I understand the reason for it on medical grounds."


She added that she was glad she had pursued the case against him, "because everybody now knows, church elder or not, what he is".

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Mhm...if I were in her shoes I doubt I would have taken this so lightly. Plus when I was searching for this article in English (as I first discovered it in a German online newspaper) and googled "too fat for jail" there was a surprising number of results from all over the world. IMO the governments/counties should try to solve the logistic problems of their prisons to avoid awkward sentences like this.
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mylaptopisevil 3rd-Dec-2009 06:34 pm (UTC)
He's so fat that when that guy sleeps around with kids he really sleeps around with kids I mean uh err...
lizzelizzel 3rd-Dec-2009 06:40 pm (UTC)
boooo hissss :throws tomato:
violetrose 3rd-Dec-2009 06:40 pm (UTC)
No.
demonsandsongs 3rd-Dec-2009 06:43 pm (UTC)
well he wasn't too fat or immobile to sexual assult kids. Send his ass to jail, maybe he'll burn off some calories while trying to out run the men lined up make him the cell block bitch.

He'd be the closest thing to a boob those men have touched in years.
ipromiseuiwill 3rd-Dec-2009 09:47 pm (UTC)
well he wasn't too fat or immobile to sexual assult kids.

THIS
leelakin 3rd-Dec-2009 09:53 pm (UTC)
NO KIDDING. Too fucking bad for him.
hey_its_michael 3rd-Dec-2009 06:44 pm (UTC)
Yeah, they should have a prison cell and medical staff so that a POS like this guy does not get out of a prison sentence because of his weight / other health problems.
lady_sci_fi 3rd-Dec-2009 06:47 pm (UTC)
He said McConaghy's lack of mobility, ulcerated legs and need for frequent dressings amounted to "wholly exceptional circumstances".

Well, he was mobile enough to abuse kids, so i think he's mobile enough to rot in jail.
antiotter 3rd-Dec-2009 07:00 pm (UTC)
I vote we turn this walking fat deposit into soap. He can at least contribute something to society.
erunamiryene 3rd-Dec-2009 07:16 pm (UTC)
Seconded.

And now I'm going to go watch "Fight Club".
dragonhawker 3rd-Dec-2009 08:19 pm (UTC)
Dude, I don't know about you, I know I would not want to wash with soap made from this guy. I would never be clean again.
apis_cerana 3rd-Dec-2009 09:15 pm (UTC)
I was thinking of gross punishments for the guy, and I think he should be given a lipo and then forced to eat his own fat every day as he serves his time :D :D :D He's massive and I'm sure there'll be enough to last him for that long!
antiotter 3rd-Dec-2009 09:19 pm (UTC)


For some reason, this sprang to mind.
apis_cerana 3rd-Dec-2009 09:21 pm (UTC)
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lisaee 3rd-Dec-2009 07:03 pm (UTC)
Really, now?

I swear plenty of people with medical conditions go to jail. I might be wrong, but don't most major jails have hospitals?
ladygoddess 4th-Dec-2009 06:57 am (UTC)
I'm not sure how it turned out, but a few years ago in NC, this guy went nuts and ran over a group of people in a McDonald's parking lot. He then backed up over them, killing a little girl.

Last year I heard that he had cancer and maybe the reason he did it was because he knew that the state would be forced to pay for his medical care. >_>
fenris_lorsrai 3rd-Dec-2009 07:17 pm (UTC)
If I did my math right, it's been 26 years since the victim was last molested by this guy, so he likely didn't weigh that much then.
afa_mom 3rd-Dec-2009 07:08 pm (UTC)
too bad fatso
erunamiryene 3rd-Dec-2009 07:17 pm (UTC)
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Get your fat ass in jail, you piece of shit. If you can assault a girl for EIGHT FUCKING YEARS, you can goddamn do your time.

Ugh.
littlelauren86 3rd-Dec-2009 07:17 pm (UTC)
Sounds like the perfect opportunity to lose weight. Put his butt in jail where he belongs.
hourglasscreate 3rd-Dec-2009 08:45 pm (UTC)
This.
girlthatyoufear 3rd-Dec-2009 07:30 pm (UTC)
So, the physical health of an abuser>the mental health of the abused? D:
rex_dart 3rd-Dec-2009 07:46 pm (UTC)
So is this because they're worried about his health or because the jail doesn't have the resources to deal with all his issues? The citing of the lack of mobility, etc. sounds like they don't know how to cope with keeping him, not that they think he deserves to go free.

Doesn't make it right either way; just means that, like our prison system in the US, maybe they have some other pretty damn significant issues that need to be dealt with.
pennieblack 3rd-Dec-2009 07:50 pm (UTC)
..He only got three years? Goddamn. :/
dragonhawker 3rd-Dec-2009 08:17 pm (UTC)
Fat wank, religion wank, and child molestation! It's like some kind of unholy trilogy!
violetrose 3rd-Dec-2009 08:22 pm (UTC)
Oh God, don't say wank. The Wank Fairies will use their sparkle dust on this post, and we don't need all those wanks in one post. >.>
rex_dart 3rd-Dec-2009 08:28 pm (UTC)
Now if only he was also a black woman with relaxed hair who worked for PETA.
sitakhet 3rd-Dec-2009 09:07 pm (UTC)
Holy shit that would be the Second Coming of Wank
sitakhet 3rd-Dec-2009 09:08 pm (UTC)
Or maybe I should say Second Cuming.

Badumpsh!
weyrdchic 3rd-Dec-2009 08:35 pm (UTC)
Baron Harkonnen, is that you?
hourglasscreate 3rd-Dec-2009 08:43 pm (UTC)
Hell, jail might be the perfect place for criminals who are that fat. Put 'em all in one wing on a regulated intake diet and when they are skinny enough to go to a regular jail send 'em there.
aurora_84 3rd-Dec-2009 08:46 pm (UTC)
UGH to the extreme.
foofighter0234 3rd-Dec-2009 10:11 pm (UTC)
well he wasn't too fat or immobile to sexual assult kids.
zombienurse 3rd-Dec-2009 10:24 pm (UTC)
Put him on the Biggest Loser then send him to jail? I don't know how that show works, but every time I see clips there is a lot of yelling at overweight people and them crying. It must work!
kindelling 3rd-Dec-2009 11:26 pm (UTC)
I'm torn, because sex abuse is practically a tradition in the Catholic Church. And sexual child abuse is passed on, which means that either a priest did it to him or someone else did.
It makes my skin crawl that this continues and that the Church is a haven for it, but it came from somewhere, which means he was a victim too.
i_amthecosmos 4th-Dec-2009 01:12 am (UTC)
First, I have to say how much I admire the strength of the victim. She is handling this outragousness a damn lot better than I would have.

Personally, I might have shot the son of a bitch if I heard that in a courtroom.
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