A former meditation teacher has been jailed for three years for sexual attacks on a child in the 1970s. Bernard Ward (aged 71) was working as a teacher at the Transcendental Meditation Centre in Dublin city when he abused a child who was attending the centre. The victim and his parents had received training for the meditation technique at the centre and the child began working there at weekends when he was aged 10. The trial heard evidence that Ward, of Knockmaroon Estate, Castleknock, Dublin molested the child in a shower room in the centre. On a third occasion, Ward asked the child to take his trousers down and proceeded to have oral sex.

Source: Irish Examiner May 20, 2019 15:11 UTC