Sentencing policy must be reviewed

The case of a 16-year-old convicted of sexually assaulting five women and threatened to murder and “rape like a dog” another woman must pose a serious question in relation to the sentencing policy in such cases.

He was placed on the sex offenders’ register and sentenced to two years’ detention when he appeared in Dundalk Circuit Court.

If that is the maximum sentence allowed under legislation, then there is a glaring need to have it reviewed.