Sicko Mark Dolan, who masturbated in front of children, moves into Dublin home just minutes from where victims live

The parents of the girls – who were aged between six and eight when the vile Dolan preyed on them last year – are now disgusted as the car mechanic, who lived in Athy, Co Kildare at the time, has moved back into a house on just 900 meters from his victims in Dublin.

This was said by a mother of one of the victims Sunday World that yesterday afternoon, while walking home with her young daughter, she saw Dolan pass her on the street.

“Luckily my daughter didn’t see him, but that’s the reality because he lives so close,” the mother said.

The Sunday World can also reveal that the DPP has decided not to appeal the leniency of a suspended sentence handed down to deranged pervert Dolan, 49, who drove all the way from Athy to North Dublin to masturbate in front of four girls playing innocently at the entrance of their house. dead end.

The nasty incident was caught on CCTV, leading to Dolan being identified – but he was only given a suspended sentence by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Court last month.

The Sunday World obtained the footage that helped capture Dolan, but we are only publishing non-graphic portions of the film.

The victims’ families said this week they were disgusted but not surprised that Dolan was released from court, but were dealt another blow last weekend when they were told the DPP had decided not to appeal the lenient sentence.

“It feels like there are no consequences for him and that’s a dangerous message to send out – but I think it’s a message that the courts send out all the time when it comes to sexual offences,” one of the mothers said this weekend.

Dolan, who lived in Athy at the time of the crimes and currently works in Portlaoise, recently returned to the same area of ​​Dublin where he targeted his victims.

“The arrogance of his return to this area,” the mother said. “I feel like he’s sticking out two fingers to us. Why would you come back here? He’s so close that the girls could see him again.

The victims’ families watched a sickening ten-minute video of Dolan masturbating in front of their children, ejaculating twice while staring at the girls and trying to talk to them and smile at them.

‘He came to this estate for one purpose. It was very difficult to watch the video, but I’m glad I watched it because it fuels my anger,” the mother said. “He didn’t masturbate once, he masturbated twice.

“He masturbated once, walked away and came back masturbating again and then walked away, and came back a third time, but then he saw a camera and ran away.

“He had a smile on his face as he talked to them and said, ‘I hope you don’t mind me doing this, girls’.”

“It was totally premeditated. This wasn’t someone driving and seeing some kids. The language used in court was opportunistic, this was not opportunistic. This was premeditated.”

The mother of another victim said she feared Dolan might have tried to take one of the children when he returned for the third time.

“The very last part of the video he goes back to his car and he’s still hanging on by his pants, you know. He looks back at the girls and leaves the door of his car to go back to them, which was terrifying because we don’t know what he went back for. Then he clocked the camera footage and paid attention to it.

“That’s the only reason he left and that’s the scariest part. He could have gone back and got them,” the second mother said.

‘The brutality of him. He strolled around with his bits hanging around laughing and almost coming back to them. What was he doing?”

She said the families were very disappointed with the suspended sentence.

“For us the ruling was just bizarre, but the fact that he can live three minutes away from us is just crazy.”

The families believe the incident on May 6 last year was not the first time Dolan did something similar.

They said other people in the area had described a man matching Dolan’s description acting in a similar manner, but that man was never caught.

“There had been reports of a man who had exposed himself to children in recent months but was never caught, but the description matched him,” the second mother said. “It couldn’t possibly have been a first.”

The mother of a third victim said: “We can’t prove it was him, but it all stopped when Dolan was caught.”

The second mother also revealed that there had been a meeting at a house where Dolan was staying the day after he received his suspended sentence.

“They had a party the weekend he received the suspended sentence. On There was a large gathering in the house on Saturday. I don’t know what they were celebrating, but I would take it easy.”

A number of people wrote character references for Dolan, including his employer, his mother and his current partner.

He is divorced from his first wife, who wants nothing to do with him, but was already in the new relationship when he committed the vile acts last year.

That woman, who has two children, continues to stand by Dolan despite his crimes.

“She sent a letter to the court saying he was like a father to her girls,” said the mother of one victim.

The families understood he was staying with that woman, but since his conviction, Dolan has been spotted at a home less than a mile from where his victims live.

Neither Dolan’s partner nor parents went into court to see the video of his actions.

The third mother said: “If they saw the video they might not talk to him.”

The Sunday World can also reveal that Dolan told his parents that he had been stabbed in the genitals and that was why he exposed himself that day and had not masturbated in front of children.

However, when he realized on the day of the sentencing that the video would be shown, he told them outside the courtroom.

The second mother said: ‘He said he had told them an untruth and that he had to prepare for what they were going to see. They only believed it for the third time and the mother looked at him trembling. They didn’t come in the end, so they still didn’t see what happened. I know it’s hard. It’s not fair to them. They didn’t do it.”

The families said Dolan smiled when he was given a suspended sentence and described him as having a “smug” look on his face.

They said if he had shown any remorse he would never have returned to the area and they are now terrified that their children will see him.

The mothers said the girls were too young to fully understand what Dolan did, but knew it was wrong and since then they have had several problems, such as nightmares and bed-wetting and getting scared when they walk past the place where the ‘bad man’ was . .

They are all concerned about the long-term effect this will have on their children. All the families believe the sentencing hearing focused far too much on Dolan and not the victims.

The first-time mother said: “It was all about him. It was all about him. Our girls received hardly any mention of their ages during the sentencing.

“It was said he has a good track record – so what, me too? They also said he was having a hard time with his divorce, but people get divorced every day and they don’t. He also lived with his new partner at the time.

‘What do you say to your little girls? Actually, you don’t matter, he’s more important than you?

“That’s the message that’s being sent.”