Man given suspended sentence and ordered to leave Ireland after attempted child abduction

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Visak Rajesh Leela was given a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to leave Ireland within two weeks after pleading guilty to attempting to abduct a five-year-old boy at a Dublin apartment complex in 2024.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Leela ran after the child and pushed him outside. Judge Martin Nolan said he had concluded Leela was not a danger to children and that an immediate prison sentence was not warranted. Leela was also ordered not to return to Ireland for 10 years.