Centre hits out at child abuser’s sentence

More consideration was given by the judge to sex abuser Tom Humphries than to his victim, according to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC).

The organisation’s CEO Noeline Blackwell made the claim after the former sports journalist was jailed for two and a half years for grooming and sexually abusing a teenage girl.

Ms Blackwell hit out at the leniency of the sentence and said that, from her reading of Judge Karen O’Connor’s comments, it “certainly seemed that the impact on the victim and the victim’s family did not weigh all that heavily on her”.