Man jailed for series of violent sexual assaults on girlfriend

A teenager who subjected his then-girlfriend to a series of violent sexual assaults has been jailed for three years.

The 22-year-old man pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual assault on a trial date. He can’t be identified for legal reasons.

A local garda told the court that the boy and girl, who were then both 16, were in a relationship. He violently sexually assaulted her six times on four occasions at his family home in Co. Kildare between July and October 2019.

In a powerful victim impact statement read at an earlier hearing, the woman outlined the emotional and psychological effects of the abuse on her.

She said she trusted the man, but he “betrayed this trust”.

It was her first relationship, and she “naively didn’t know any different”. She said she became afraid of him after the first incident and described suffering from nightmares and panic attacks.

She said she has wondered if she made the right choice to report the abuse and feels guilty for the impact on the…

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