Gardaí investigate alleged sexual assault on teenage boy

Gardaí in Co Wicklow are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a teenage boy at the weekend.

The youth says he was attacked by a man he tried to help at a bus stop in Newtownmountkennedy at around 7.30pm on Saturday night.

He has told gardaí that he saw the man lying on the ground, but when he tried to help, the man jumped up with a knife and sexually assaulted him.