A teenage boy who raped and sexually abused his eight-year-old half-sister has been ordered to reside away from his parents as part of a suspended sentence.

The court heard the boy told gardaí he had been copying what he saw on a pornographic website, PornHub. The boy was 14 at the time and his half-sister was eight.

A pioneering German project works with people with a sexual interest in children to help them control their urges and prevent them offending.

An IT worker and father of three has received a non-custodial sentence for sexually assaulting his niece 24 years ago.

One of the country’s few agencies for dealing with adolescent sex offenders has said that it is seeing cases “we would not have seen 10 or 15 years ago” due to an addiction to online pornography.

More than 3,000 children who reported they were sexually abused last year cannot access therapy from the HSE — unless they live in Dublin or Limerick.

TEENAGERS account for one-third of all sex offenders and the majority are males aged 15 and 16, according to childcare experts.