Boy sentenced to three years’ detention for rape and sexual assault of 13-year-old girl

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A 16-year-old boy was sentenced to three years in detention after being convicted of the rape and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl he had been dating. The judge suspended the final 21 months on strict conditions, meaning he will spend 15 months in Oberstown detention centre. The boy continues to deny the offending and does not accept the jury’s verdicts.

The offences occurred between June and July 2023, when the boy was 14 and the girl was 13. The court also placed him under Probation Service supervision for three years after release, ordered him to comply with its directions and put him on the sex offenders’ register for three years. The judge ordered that he have no contact with the girl.