Man got tattoo as reminder of day he violently raped girl
A man who got a tattoo as a reminder of the day he violently raped a teenage girl has been jailed for 10 years.
The 26-year-old pleaded guilty to raping the girl in a field in Co Meath on the second day of his Central Criminal Court trial last February.
The girl was 14 at the time of the offending in September 2022, while the man was then 22. He cannot be named to protect the injured party’s right to anonymity.
They came into contact through social media and chatted for approximately one year before the rape occurred. The man also assaulted the girl, verbally abused and threatened her during the ordeal, which lasted between 90 minutes and three hours.
They had arranged a safe word for when they met up, which the man ignored, the court heard.
In early 2023, the man sent a photo of a tattoo he had gotten which included the word. In messages to an account set up by the girl’s boyfriend, who was pretending to be her, the man said the tattoo was a reminder of “how weak you are...
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