Limerick man who told teenage girl 'I love watching you go through pain' as he raped her is jailed

Man, 25, also told victim: 'A boy has got to do what a boy has got to do when he is horny', court heard
Limerick man who told teenage girl 'I love watching you go through pain' as he raped her is jailed

Sentencing Damien Long to eight years in prison, with the final 12 months suspended, judge said rape was 'an act of violence of the most invasive nature', aggravated in this case by the degrading language used by Long.

A Limerick man who raped a teenager and told her “a boy has got to do what a boy has got to do when he is horny” has been jailed for seven years.

Damien Long, 26, pinned down the then 17-year-old girl and raped her after she said she did not want to have sex with him. She struggled with him and he told her: “I love it when you squirm.” 

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