'Grieving for my daughter and for my lost son,' mother tells court in case of boy who raped his half-sister

The court heard the boy told gardaí he had been copying what he saw on a pornographic website, PornHub. The boy was 14 at the time and his half-sister was eight.

A teenage boy who raped and sexually abused his eight-year-old half-sister should be placed in residential care while undergoing treatment, a court has heard.

The 16-year-old has pleaded guilty to five counts of oral rape and 44 counts of sexual assault, carried out between September 2016 and January 2017.