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Sarah-Jane Murphy
14 min read âzoeâ WAS JUST THREE WHEN SHE REPORTED THE ABUSE. FOR HER FAMILY, the trauma of the EVENT was compounded by a four-year legal process
Figures released by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions show that, in 2019, 459 people were prosecuted in Ireland for sexual offences. Among the cases was that of one of the youngest complainants in the history of the State, who was just three years old at the time of her disclosure.
âSometimes I feel we were guinea pigs, a test case the State was never going to win. After four years of battling the system, we know how dangerously inefficient it is,â says Kate, a mother of two in her 40s.
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Burglar who broke into sleeping woman s bedroom and sexually assaulted her jailed
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A burglar who broke in through the window of a sleeping woman s bedroom and sexually assaulted her as she fought to escape has been jailed for ten years.
The woman described at the Central Criminal Court how she awoke in bed to find Ibrahim Elghynaoui (28) on top of her kissing her with his hand on her throat.
She said she believed she was going die as Elghynaoui then strangled her during a struggle on her bedroom floor. She realised no one was coming to help her so began to fight back by pushing her thumbs into his eyes, kneeing him in the groin and biting him on the hand.
A burglar who broke in through the window of a sleeping woman s bedroom and sexually assaulted her as she fought to escape has been jailed for ten years. T.