17-year-old guilty of ‘defiling’ girl, 15

A 17-year-old boy who had sex with a 15-year-old girl when they were in care in the same Cork foster home has been given nine months to earn a more lenient sentence by showing a judge he has turned his life around.

In June 2014, the teen had sexual intercourse and oral sex in a nearby wooded area.

Garda Ashling Murphy told Judge Donagh McDonagh the girl told someone in a youth education programme the next day what happened and gardaí were alerted.