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A teenager who sexually assaulted the young daughter of his foster family on several occasions over a three-year period has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
The now 18-year-old man,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, who was 15 when the offences came to light, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexually assaulting the then 4-6 year old girl between 1999 and 2001 at his foster home in north Dublin.
"That young man got five years of love and acceptance in my house but he threw it back on my face," his foster mother whose young daughter he abused,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, told the media after the initial sentence hearing. "He will never be able to touch a child of mine again," she said.
Garda Olive Jolley told prosecuting counsel, Ms Mary Rose Gearty BL, that the victim’s parents had taken him into their home in Blanchardstown when he was 10-years-old. Both his parents were alcoholics and the girl’s family had treated him as one of their own.
His offences first came to light in early 2001 when one of the victim’s sisters found him in the conservatory lying on the ground with her young sister. The girl was lying with her knees up and he was on his knees between her legs.
Ms Gearty said the older sister reported the incident to her parents who had a lengthy discussion with the defendant about the incident in particular and about sexual behaviour in general. A social worker was present throughout the discussion.
The victim’s mother told the media she went through a lot of soul-searching before allowing him to stay with the family again. She first talked to him about the incident in the presence of a social worker and explained to him that what he had done was extremely wrong.
She also immediately evicted the boy from her house and sent him to a hostel but, having reared him as a son,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, she felt concerned about his welfare and rang the hostel to inquire about him. She learned that he had left the hostel and was wandering the streets again.
It was then, she said, that she took him back. She imposed strict conditions on him which included the provision that he was never alone in the same room with the victim. She also told him that should the victim come into a room while he was there, he should leave immediately.
The victim’s mother also made arrangements to ensure that someone always watched over him and made sure he was never alone with the young girl and that he adhered to the rules that she had imposed.
Despite her best efforts,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, and the trust she had extended to him, a second such incident occurred in June 2001. The court heard that the girl’s mother discovered him lying on top of her daughter in her bed.
The mother said she had been feeding a younger baby and had only taken her eyes off the defendant for a few minutes when she became aware that he was no longer in the room with her. She sped up the stairs to her daughter’s room where she found him lying on top of her daughter.
"I loved him till then," the girl’s mother who had trusted and cared for him for many years, told the media. She told Judge Desmond Hogan that she wanted his name published but he ruled against request in order to protect the young girl’s identity.
"I wanted to make sure that he does not do this to another child," she said explaining her request to have the boy’s name published. She said she had since received calls from other foster parents who had become concerned about children of a similar age living with them.
She said when she discovered him the second time she immediately reported the incident to gardai who interviewed the girl. She said on several occasions he "had done dirty things" to her that she had not wanted him to.
Ms Mary Ellen Ring SC, defending, told Judge Desmond Hogan that her client was a young man to whom life has not been kind. Born to alcoholic parents he was "wandering around the city starving" when the girl’s parents took him into their care.
"That he was wandering, at the age of 10,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, starving and uncared for," Ms Ring said, bore witness to the sad circumstances surrounding the young man.
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