Man avoids jail over sex conviction

A 31-YEAR-OLD man whose wife caught him kissing and cuddling with the babysitter promised to end his affair with the teenager but it became an intense sexual relationship over the following months.

The man, who pleaded guilty to having sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 17 on seven occasions, was before Cork Circuit Criminal Court for sentencing yesterday. The offences were committed between October and December 2008 in West Cork.

Judge Patrick J Moran made an order that the parties could not be identified. He imposed a suspended three-year sentence and put him on the sex offenders register for five years.