Cork teenager who had viewed online porn since he was nine avoids jail for raping niece

The judge said: “This is an alarm call to society in general as to the dangers of a child accessing pornography.”

The teenager is not to go within 50 kilometres of the victim for five years. File photo: iStock

A teenager who raped his niece after viewing internet pornography from the age of nine or 10 had a five-year jail sentence suspended on condition that he would not go within 50 kilometres of the victim for five years.

The 19-year-old is also required to have no access to any child without supervision for the next five years. Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy adjourned finalisation of sentencing from Monday until now so that the probation service could report on the safeguards that could be put in place for the teenager’s rehabilitation in the community.