Teenager has detention sentence activated for child defilement

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A teenager had 12 months of a four-year detention sentence activated at the Central Criminal Court on 3 March 2023 for breaching conditions attached to his sentence for defilement of a child under 15. The final three years were suspended for two years.

He pleaded guilty to the offence, which occurred in Co Dublin on 31 December 2019. The conditions included not committing further offences and following Probation Service directions; he was also required not to contact the victim directly or indirectly. The source reported that the boy denied unlawful sex, admitted other sexual activity and claimed the victim had been the instigator and that everything was consensual.