Man pleads guilty to sexual acts with underage girl

Teenagers who met via the internet site Tagged ended up going out together for three months and having sex. Two years later the girl made a complaint against the man to gardaí.

He was in court yesterday charged with engaging in sexual acts with a child under the age of 17.

The girl was 16 years and 10 months old at the time, two months short of the legal age to have consensual sex. The man was 19 at the time.