A man has avoided jail after pleading guilty to the defilement of a child in a bedroom in her mother’s house while she was studying for her Junior Certificate. He pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of defilement at an address in Longford on June 23rd, 2013. But hours later he entered a guilty plea to a count of defilement. ‘Effectively peers’He said the Oireachtas had decided the maximum sentence for defilement is a five-year term of imprisonment. “Also, the man must have no contact either directly or indirectly with the victim in this case,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times January 22, 2018 21:29 UTC