Man gets suspended sentence for sexual assault on girl, 14, at Dublin bus stop

The man has been barred from 'unsupervised contact with children'

Judge Leech imposed a six-month sentence but suspended it with conditions that he did not re-offend for two years and had 'no contact with any minor or without supervision including in activities where children are present'.

A man has avoided jail for groping a teenage girl during a sexual assault at a bus stop in Dublin and has been barred from "unsupervised contact with children".

Anatol Botnari, 24, of Sorrell Heath, Clonsilla, Dublin, originally from Moldova, denied the charge and claimed he "bumped" into the 14-year-old girl in the city's north side on February 4, 2023, after getting drunk.