'We must do better': judge notes young men from good families with no priors being jailed for sexual offences

A young man from Donegal has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison, with the final eighteen months suspended for one year, following his conviction for oral rape. Jason McLaughlin of Cashel, Gleneely pleaded guilty to the offence, which occurred in January 2022 when he was sixteen years old. The victim was fourteen at the time. Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring, sitting at the Central Criminal Court, heard that…