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Violent 63-year-old sex offender to spend further six months in custody
Summary
Ronaldo Otto, a 63‑year‑old who is transitioning to female and identifies as Samantha Otto, was sentenced by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to an additional six months in custody for breaching the terms of a three‑year suspended sentence. The suspended sentence originally applied to an assault in which Otto threw a cup of boiling water over a casino customer's face in 2019. Otto had previously been convicted of a sexual assault on an 18‑year‑old male student in October 2022, while the suspended portion of the casino assault sentence was still active. A jury found Otto guilty of the sexual assault in May. Judge Pauline Codd reactivated six months of the suspended sentence, suspended the remaining two and a half years, and directed that the new term run consecutively with the three‑year sentence for the sexual assault.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Violent 63-year-old sex offender to spend further six months in custody. Charges or matters: assault causing harm on April 27, 2019 and received a suspended sentence a year and a half later. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- October 26, 2022 Incident
- April 27, 2019 Incident
- October 2020 Incident
- 2025-07-24 Publication
Why: Det Gda Collier explained that there had been sexual advances by Otto over text messages, but this had been months earlier, and the injured party had indicated that he was just interested in friendship. CNI source report
Case subjects
Defendant
Charges: assault causing harm on April 27, 2019 and received a suspended sentence a year and a half later (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Ronaldo Otto, who is transitioning to female and identifies as Samantha Otto, was before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today for breaching the terms of a three-year suspended sentence imposed for throwing a cup of boiling water over the face of another casino customer over six years ago. Pieter Le Vert BL, defending, pointed out that his client had been sentenced on Monday, and is being held in Mountjoy. "You see today, she appears not as a female," he said. "That causes her considerable distress.
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