Passing sentence on Wednesday, Ms Justice Karen O'Connor said this was premeditated and planned offending.

Nicole Chambers (29) alleged the prison officer had assaulted her in a hospital cubicle.

The woman read her victim impact statement into the record. She said she lost her self-worth from a very young age, “because my innocence was taken away by you”.

Philip Murphy (45) engaged in a “protracted campaign of sexual abuse” against his half brother and two young girls he babysat on dates between 1994 and 1998, Mr Justice Paul Burns said when sentencing him at the Central Criminal Court on Monday.

The 23-year-old man was 21 when he sexually assaulted the then 15-year-old girl after waking her in the night when she was staying in the family home of her grandmother.

Kyle Hayes Condon of Pairc an Tobair in Clonakilty, Co Cork, was jailed for seven years with the last year suspended.

Gerard Nevin (42) of Grove Park, Rathmines, Dublin 6, had pleaded guilty to 22 counts of sexual assault

Justice Greally said that the case of abuse encompassed a broad range of sexual violations which were carried out with regularity over a period of just over five years.

The report also reveals 300 children a year contact Childline about sexual abuse involving rape, incest and being forced to watch and/or perform sexual acts.

The court heard that the accused was charged with a total of 53 offences in relation to sexually assaulting his granddaughter.

The Central Criminal Court heard that Pat Salmon (89) of Rockfield, Knock, Claremorris, Co Mayo pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault, on dates between January and June 1995.

The woman said the then 18-year-old man was 'my friend, someone I thought I could trust'.

The youth known as Boy A was sentenced to life with a review after 12 years for murdering the 14-year-old.

The man pleaded guilty to one count of sexually assaulting the victim, on May 7th, 2022.

The accused man appeared for sentence at Letterkenny Circuit Court while his victim, who is now in her 20s, appeared by audio-link from outside the country where she now resides

Aidan Dunphy (44) of Crowe Street, Gort, Co. Galway pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault and one of engaging in a sexual act with a child under 17 at a location in Co Galway on a date in June 2023

Both Susan Mallon and Jenny Sullivan waived their right to anonymity so Ian Healy could be named

Alec Goucher, of Lower George's Street, Wexford, Co Wexford, continues to deny the offending and does not accept the verdicts of the jury. Elizabeth Usher waived her anonymity so Goucher could be named.

Declan Daly (54) of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath pleaded guilty before his trial to 12 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against three female victims on dates between 1982 and 2002. He was convicted at trial of three counts of raping a further victim in 2022.

All of the incidents took place in Donegal, and there are 19 victims in the case

The 44-year-old Dublin man, who can't be named to protect the anonymity of his victims, engaged in a deliberate and calculated campaign of sexual abuse of his daughter, who was aged between five and eight at the time

The man cannot be named for legal reasons because of the nature of the charge.

The woman, who is in her 50s, had denied 14 charges, including 13 charges of sexual assault and one of rape.

He had pleaded guilty before the start of the trial to assault causing harm to the complainant on the same date.

The prosecution told the court that Jade MacFarlane wished to waive her anonymity and have Ghergut named.

Most of the boys were between 11 and 13 years old when abused, though one victim was abused from the age of eight to the age of 13

Aaron Barwell arranged for each victim to come to his residence on separate occasions, where he carried out the offences

In November 2024, Judge Sinéad Ní Chúlacháin imposed a global sentence of six years on Gerard Nevin, with the final two years suspended

Jasmin Nasic was found guilty by a jury of one count of sexual assault and one count of engaging in offensive conduct of a sexual nature following a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trial earlier this year

The incidents occurred in a Co Galway housing estate where both children were living with their families.

Bryan McNeill, aged 55, of K Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, was handed a six-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay €10,000 to the 19-year-old college student.

Bryan McNeill, aged 55, of K Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, had lodged €30,000, allowing him to return to the United States in March.

In the case, the accused is charged with two counts of sexual assault of the girl at at Vandeleur Woods, Feagarroge, Kilrush on June 7th and June 8th 2023.

The boy was aged 14 at the time of the offence where he ‘humped’ the girl from behind in the company of other teenagers at a popular swimming spot, a pontoon at Canal Bank, Killaloe three years ago.

Coroner Clare Keane returned a verdict of death by suicide at an inquest into the death of Neville Kearns at Dublin District Coroner’s Court on Tuesday after hearing evidence that the collision was due to the result of “driver input.”

The number of sexual offences reported to gardaí has increased in the first six months of the year when compared to the same period in 2024.

Martin Joseph, known as ‘Joe’, Cullen, 63, was found guilty of seven counts of sexual assault on various dates between 1993 and 2007 at locations in Co Donegal.

The 24-year-old man was convicted of attempted oral rape, sexual assault and engaging in a sexual act with a child under 15 following a Central Criminal Court trial earlier this month.

The study’s authors said the research suggests memory errors can occur ‘no matter what side of the courtroom you’re on’.

Figures show just over 6,300 suspected sex offenders were prosecuted out of over 19,600 accused people.

The 54-year-old Ukrainian man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, was found guilty by a jury, of raping and sexually assaulting the woman on March 13th 2024.

The man pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault on his wife at their family home in Wicklow two years ago.

The defendant pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his granddaughter on five occasions, which took place at addresses in Co Wicklow as well as in his vehicle at unknown locations in Ireland