Man who assaulted au pair given 80 hours of community service

Man’s wife, who was in court to support him, had reported the assault to gardaí

The victim, who came to Ireland in 2020 to work for the man as an au pair, was alone with him in the house when he came in and sat beside her in the living room at 11pm on the evening in question. File picture: iStock

A manager at a multinational company who assaulted his teenage au pair has been directed to complete 80 hours of community service in lieu of a four-month prison sentence.

The 41-year-old man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to one count of assaulting the 18-year-old under Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 in his Dublin home in August 2020.