Fears as child sex monster set free

Fears as child sex monster set free
13 March 1999
The Sun
Ian Hepburn
A CHILD sex monster is feared to be plotting attacks on kids from inside a bail hostel - in time for his release next week.

Depraved Michael Horgan, 50 - who has already changed his name to Shaun O'Donnell - is known to have established links with other sex offenders.

Evil Horgan liked to hang kids from ceiling hooks in a secret attic den before beating and abusing them with paedophile pals.

A police intelligence report branded him: "A dangerous individual with a history of disturbing abuse."

He has been under surveillance while at a bail hostel in South London since his release from prison last May.

Timebomb

But on Tuesday he is completely free to return to the community - and police are powerless to act unless he reoffends.

One cops said: "This man is a timebomb waiting to go off."

Last night one of Horgan's victims told of her horror on hearing he is to roam free. The girl, now 21, said: "I'll spend the rest of my days looking over my shoulder. And I fear he'll do the same to someone else as he did to me."

Horgan, whose youngest victim was TWO, was jailed for ten years in 1992. He was released on licence after two-thirds of his sentence.