2025-07-18
Child abuser jailed for oral rape and indecent assault on three-year-old cousin
Stage: Sentence
Finding: Found guilty
Outcome: Found guilty; He was sentenced to 9 months for this offence. He reduced the headline sentences to six and a half years and four years respectively, given that Dowling was a juvenile at the time of the offending Mr Justice Burns then imposed concurrent sentences of five years and three years before he suspended the final 12 months of the five-year term on strict conditions, including that Dowling engage with the Probation Supervision upon his release.; The case was adjourned for mention to allow for the hearing of a case in the Supreme Court in relation to the naming of juvenile accused persons when they reach adulthood, and therefore could not be reported until now.