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23/10/2012
16-Year-Old Sentenced To Six Years For Rape
A 16-year-old boy has been sentenced to six years’ detention with the final three years suspended for the rape of a 15-year-old girl at a house party in Dublin last year.
The boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping the girl in a bedroom on 5 March 2011.
He had no previous convictions and was also 15 years old at the time of the rape.
Sean Gillane SC, defending, had submitted that the Children Act 2001 indicates that a period of detention should be imposed on a child only as a measure of last resort and only when the court is satisfied there is no other way to deal with the child.
However, Mr Justice Paul Carney said the offence was a “full-blown vaginal rape” and that the provisions of the Children Act could not save the accused from a custodial sentence.
He did note that both parties were very drunk at the house, with the accused claiming huge alcohol consumption as well as taking hash. He also commented in mitigation that there had been a lack of appropriate adult supervision of both the accused and victim.
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The boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping the girl in a bedroom on 5 March 2011.
He had no previous convictions and was also 15 years old at the time of the rape.
Sean Gillane SC, defending, had submitted that the Children Act 2001 indicates that a period of detention should be imposed on a child only as a measure of last resort and only when the court is satisfied there is no other way to deal with the child.
However, Mr Justice Paul Carney said the offence was a “full-blown vaginal rape” and that the provisions of the Children Act could not save the accused from a custodial sentence.
He did note that both parties were very drunk at the house, with the accused claiming huge alcohol consumption as well as taking hash. He also commented in mitigation that there had been a lack of appropriate adult supervision of both the accused and victim.
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