Teens remanded for sex assault sentences
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Two teenagers involved in the sexual assault of two boys, aged seven and eight, have been remanded on bail for sentence on November 7 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Jeffrey Connor (aged 17), of Quarry Road, and Patrick Dunne (aged 17), of Jarlath Road, both Cabra, admitted varying degrees of involvement in the assault on the victims on May 31, 2002. Connor pleaded guilty to assault on one boy and Dunne to indecent assault on the second boy which involved forcing the younger boy to masturbate him. The attack took place inside an abandoned van parked at a north Dublin location. A third teenager involved in the same attack was convicted of sexual assault by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury last November following a one-week trial. Judge Michael White sentenced the 15-year-old to two years detention at Trinity House. Garda Fergal O’Toole told Ms Karen O’Connor BL, prosecuting, that the attack on the younger boys, now both 14 years of age, came to light when the mother of one of the victims noticed her son behaving unusually and found out about the assault from him. Subsequent interviews with Connor and Dunne revealed they had gone to the abandoned van with the two victims and two other teenagers who were also involved in the assault. More : breakingnews.iol.ie |