March 2004 Ex-prison chief returns to jail for indecent assault  A FORMER prison governor who indecently assaulted a young girl over a seven-year period was jailed for three years yesterday at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Father-of-four Pat Carolan (73) of Kinvara Road, Cabra, Dublin, who was a Governor of the Mountjoy Prison Training Unit and St Patrick’s Institution, admitted 28 charges of indecently assaulting her when she was aged about five until she was about 13. The offences happened on dates unknown between June, 1982 and June, 1989. Judge Desmond Hogan suspended the final two years of the sentence and said he accepted a sum of ?20,000 handed over by Carolan to his victim as a sign of his contrition. Pauline Walley, prosecuting, told the judge the now 27-year-old victim wanted Carolan named in media reports of the case. Detective Garda Andy Tuite told Ms Walley the first incident happened when the victim was playing with one of the accused’s children in the garage of his house. The victim said Carolan exclaimed: “Oh Jesus! We would be in terrible trouble if anyone found out what we were doing” and told her if her family was told what happened then her father would go to jail. Gda Tuite said this abuse continued at least once a week every weekend from the time the victim was aged 5 until she was aged 7. The victim couldn’t say how many times it happened but thought it must have been hundreds of times She added that a year after reporting the abuse she felt suicidal and couldn’t function or do anything without crying. She added: “I wouldn’t credit anyone with ruining my life but he has damaged it.”