This was, she said, “an alarm call to society in general as to the dangers of a child accessing pornography”. There is not much point teaching people about consent in first year in college if they have been exposed to years of pornography.” The issue needed to be addressed at primary school level, she said. The abuse was discovered when she was 11.Īs she sentenced him to five years suspended last October for rape, High Court judge Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy warned that unless we get to grips with children accessing pornography as a society, “there will be further cases where people act out on foot of what they have seen. The assaults on her became gradually more graphic and more invasive. The first time he sexually abused his niece was when she was eight. After he turned 14, he started acting out what he had seen online. The boy began looking at pornography when he was nine or 10.
