GALWAY MAN GETS THREE YEARS FOR SEX ASSAULT ON SCHOOLGIRL

Date Published: 17-Oct-2008

A Galway cocaine addict who had sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl in a Dublin hotel room has been sentenced to three years by Judge Patricia Ryan.32 year old Stephen Murray, formerly of Ballinfoile Park, Headford Road, asked the girl to miss school so that she could accompany him to a Dublin hotel where he told staff she was his sister.He pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sexually assaulting the girl on November 22nd 2004 in the Celtic Lodge Hostel on Talbot Street.