31-year-old man appealed 12-year child-defilement sentence

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The unnamed 31-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years, with the final three suspended, for defiling two girls at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court in November 2019, and appealed that sentence. The offences involved girls aged 14 and 16 at his apartment on dates in 2017 and 2018.

He had pleaded guilty to two defilement offences and two counts of meeting a child for sexual exploitation. The Court of Appeal, presided over by Mr Justice Séamus Woulfe, said it would issue its ruling on 9 July 2021.