Sex attack victim’s 'eloquent' Facebook warning

A judge has described a victim impact statement warning of the dangers of social media by a 13-year-old boy who was sexually assaulted by a 25-year-old man he met on Facebook as the most eloquent he had ever heard.

Judge Donagh McDonagh imposed a three-year, suspended sentence on Colin Wool, of Silversprings Lawn, Mayfield, for sexual assaulting the teenager in his car when parked at the Atlantic Pond in Cork on various dates between July and October 2011 when the victim was aged 13/14.

Garda David Noonan read the victim’s impact statement: “I first had contact with Colin Wool on Facebook when I was 13. He knew my age because he asked me. I just wanted to have lots of friends on Facebook but I never realised how much my life could change or the terrible things that could happen to me. After a while, Colin Wool asked me to meet him.