Man jailed for sexual assault on Bebo boy

A MAN who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy less than half his age on the day he met him on a Bebo chatroom has been jailed for 18 months.

Colm Twomey, now 39, of Pouladuff Road, Togher, Cork, and Waltham Abbey, Ballincollig, Co Cork, was sentenced to three years by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin with the second half of the sentence suspended.

Detective Garda Gary Duggan said the teenager was on Bebo when he met Twomey, who was 35 at the time, on a chatroom and that the defendant came to his house and sexually assaulted him.