MAN JAILED AT GALWAY COURT FOR CHILD SEX ASSAULT

Date Published: 06-Dec-2007

A man who mutilated a six-year-old girl during an aggravated sexual assault has been sentenced to twelve years in prison with the final three years suspended.The 27 year old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced at Galway Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.Evidence was first heard in this case last July when the accused, who's a member of the Travelling Community and a cousin of the child's mother, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the girl down a bog road near a Traveller encampment on May 10th last year. Passing sentence, Judge Raymond Groarke said the case before him was about as bad and as dreadful as he was ever likely to deal with and the fact that the infant had been taken from her bed by a sexual predator and had been mutilated down a lane way, put it at the extreme end of human conduct.