Man avoids jail for defiling ‘vulnerable’ girl, 15

A young woman who was defiled as a 15-year-old girl in the course of a sexual relationship with a 20-year-old man said he was controlling and she would not like anyone to experience what she did.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said as he imposed a one-year suspended jail term on the accused yesterday: “The victim feels at the time she was vulnerable and he was older and she was not able to resist him.”

The judge said that in the presentation of the case there were some loose descriptions of it being consensual.