CLARE MAN SENTENCED FOR DEFILEMENT OF GALWAY TEEN
Date Published: 22-May-2012
A Clare man who claimed he was due to marry a Galway teenager has been sentenced to three years for the defilement of a child.
The 22-year-old, who can't be identified, had sex with the girl after driving her from her home in Galway to a guesthouse outside Ennis, Co Clare.
The man had pleaded not guilty to defilement of a child on the night of July 11 and 12, 2010 but was found guilty after trial.
At Dublin Circuit Criminal Court Judge Mary Ellen Ring said she didn’t accept there was any serious talk of marriage between the two and she said the man knew the girl was in school.
She suspended the last 18 months of the three year sentence on the condition that he have no contact with the victim for five years.