'We must do better': judge notes young men from good families with no priors being jailed for sexual offences

A Donegal man has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment, with eighteen months suspended for one year, after pleading guilty to oral rape committed when he was sixteen years old. The offence occurred in January 2022, when the victim was fourteen. At the Central Criminal Court, Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring heard that the defendant met the girl at a location behind a filling station before the assault took…