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Drama teacher jailed for raping girl (7) at Offaly school
The victim said a woman at the school had told her not to tell her mother about the abuse.
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The victim said a woman at the school had told her not to tell her mother about the abuse.
The woman said she left the nightclub to make a phone call when the accused went with her.
The victim, now aged 25, said the pain was “unbelievable”.
The prosecution in the case of thief Mantas Grazevicius had suggested that two sex workers’ earnings that Grazevicius had stolen be confiscated by the State.
The man pleaded not guilty to possessing the books at his home while knowing or being reckless as to whether they were stolen.
51-year-old Andrew Shannon stands accused of unlawfully possessing the antique books which were taken from Carton House in Co Kildare in or around 2006.
The man says a jail term may make him suicidal. He has been convicted of forcing his friend to have sex at his home in 2011 when he was 15.
“I’m happy to serve but I fear I may lose my job,” the woman told Justice McCarthy.
Faisal Ellahi was found guilty of rape and sexual assault last month.
He told her he was a teenage girl called ‘Julie’ after meeting her on the website Tagged.com.
A 51-year-old Wicklow man is to be sentenced in February for raping and sexually assaulting two boys hundreds of times.
The judge said the man’s claims that the woman had consented to the acts was “absolutely ludicrous”.
The Pakistani man also said that in his country people with mental disabilities are kept in hospitals or at home.
A man is accused of luring the woman back to his house and raping her after she became separated from her mother.
The man said that the woman “is a bad person”.
She had become separated from her mother while out walking in Dublin.
Leanne Goode was convicted of assaulting Paula McCarthy by punching her in the face – but her victim appealed for leniency.
She was under 17 years of age at the time.
Russell Ward (23) has been jailed for 18 months for carrying on the relationship which began when he was 16 and his step-sister was 12.
“The redness descended on him”, his lawyer told the court today.
His now 32-year-old victim said the abuse has torn his family apart.
The 26-year-old set up a profile as a 13-year-old girl called “Julie” and later introduced himself as Julie’s brother.
He tried to get one of the girls to bring her sister so he could ‘train’ her
Judge Martin Nolan said Austin Byrne (38) was either a “very incompetent or very unlucky” burglar.
Martin Stokes (24) was jailed for ten years after a trial in which he called the girl a liar.
The three were found guilty on all charges.
The three accused had pleaded not guilty to conspiring to conceal or alter accounts.
Closing speeches are taking place in the trial of three former Anglo officials.
John Kelly’s job was to collect the fines from people who hadn’t paid vehicle registration tax.
31-year-old John Murphy pretended to be a journalist to extort money from an elderly sex offender.
The shopkeeper confronted the man as he tried to steal sweets.
Three Anglo officials are in court, accused of hiding accounts connected to Mr FitzPatrick.
Michael Smith will spend at least 12 years in prison.
The three are charged with hiding accounted linked with Seán Fitzpatrick.
13 were objected to by counsel for the State and the defendants.
The man extorted money from an elderly sex offender.
The judge said that it was the maximum term she was able to impose.
The jury were ordered to acquit her due to a lack of evidence.
Gail O’Rorke has named a woman who she says was with her friend when she died.
A woman who was a friend of the dead woman is the first person in the State to be charged with the offence.