2024-02-15
Man jailed for repeated sexual assaults on babysitter has jail term cut on appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Not guilty
Outcome: In May 2023 at Roscommon Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Kenneth Connolly jailed King, of Warren View, Boyle, Co Roscommon, for five and a half years for 12 counts of sexual assault on the girl who was 16 years old at the time of the offending, while King was in his mid-30s. At the Court of Appeal today, Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy said the court would quash the original sentence and re-sentence King to five years' imprisonment with the final nine months suspended.