Man’s sexual interest ‘age appropriate’

A clinical psychologist has said he is satisfied that a man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through Bebo does not have paedophilic tendencies.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard previously that the 24-year-old man had befriended the girl after using a false name and claiming to be 19.

He continued the contact and later swapped phone numbers. He met the girl over a year later, brought her back to his family home, and had sex with her. The Dublin man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to two charges of defilement of a child at his home on Apr 29, 2011. He has a previous district court conviction for possession of a knife.