Rapist foster father has sentence cut after comments on sentence remission

Richard Moloney, a foster father from County Tipperary, has had his twelve-year prison sentence reduced to ten-and-a-half years following an appeal court decision that identified a sentencing error at Dublin's Central Criminal Court. The Court of Appeal determined in October 2020 that the trial judge's remarks at the time of sentencing in November 2019 suggested consideration of potential early release when setting…