Boy, 13, who sexually assaulted student in Cork had been watching porn since he was 11

The judge called for more rigorous restrictions on companies that "are making vast sums of money from selling pornographic material".

The attacker who is now aged 15 was sentenced by Judge Catherine Staines to 18 months in Oberstown centre. File picture

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A 13-year-old boy who carried out a vicious attack with a sexual element on a final-year college student walking home in Cork had been viewing pornography from the age of 11, and now the sentencing judge has called for restrictions on online platforms making vast sums of money from pornography being shown to vulnerable children.