Man who says sexual assault of teenager was a misunderstanding gets suspended sentence | BreakingNews.ie

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  1. I think Martin Nolan is wrong, if I’m honest. I don’t think it’s even a little bit unusual for sex cases to lie about what they thought was going on in the interaction.

    In my opinion, they pretty much all lie about being all confused.

    It’s remarkable that this confusion was between a grown man and a teenager rather than a grown man and another grown man who could have bet the head off him.

  2. Who appoints Nolans as judges? When I’m minister for justice – and that will be no time soon – my first law will be throwing CVs applying for any court position from anyone called Nolan in the bin.

    Has anyone heard of a judicial Nolan who isn’t giving ludicrous sentences for sex crimes?

  3. Jesus fucking Christ. This is what’s wrong with the justice system in Ireland. I know the defending solicitor has their job to do and being drunk or it being dark shouldn’t be a valid excuse accepted by a judge. Sexual assault is sexual assault, and even worse it was a teenager. Can we put together a collection of these ridiculously lenient sentences to see what judges are handing these out (like Nolan)? Anyone in law able to say how they compare with other judges or other countries? By Christ we need to do *something*.

  4. People always ask survivors why the didn’t report, but when you see these stories you have to wonder why anyone bothers at all.

    Getting a case to court takes a lot of time and people have to repeat their story over and over again and it retramuatises them. And for what?

    I hope the perpetrator never gets to work as a nurse anywhere ever again

  5. I didn’t need to read it to know it was Martin Nolan.

    On what planet does “Can I borrow your phone?” Misconstrues to “LETS HAVE SEX”

    Don’t care how much drink you’ve had it’d no excuse to SA a CHILD!!

    Jesus fucking Christ I can’t stand this fucking judge

  6. There needs to be some kind of active monitoring and benchmarking of sentencing patterns by a committee of the judiciary and legal profession themselves. It doesn’t need to undermine judicial independence, but the system is clearly lacking a structure that self checks and balances.

  7. Judge Nolan should be locked up

    Too many cases of child s3xual abuse hes let off for me to not think he has a dirty secret himself, he should have his hard drives checked ASAP

  8. This is crazy… Wether the fella was 16 or 36 he was sexually assaulted, an absolute joke of a judge, no matter how much of a language barrier there is you don’t go and grab someone by their penis. Can’t help but wonder if the young fella had been a girl would the same leniency from the judge occured.

  9. No wonder sexual assault victims don’t want to come forward and report them or go to court. Its hard to believe this shit is still common practice

  10. This judge should be shot. Jesus Christ, the child was punching the man and screaming. That is NOT a misunderstanding

  11. I’m sorry, but I fail to understand how anyone would think it acceptable for the guy to grope any person’s genitals, no matter how drunk they were, no matter how dark it was and no matter what age he thought the person was.

    Under any circumstances, it’s a gross violation.

    Not understanding the language is not a valid excuse.
    Being drunk is not an excuse.
    Being from a different culture is not an excuse. There is no excuse for sexual assault, ever.

    To think it was a 16-year old kid, it’s just beyond belief.

    Clear signals need to be sent that sexual assault, abuse and rape are very serious crimes and they will not be tolerated.
    Those signals are not sent by giving someone a suspended sentence.

  12. Filho: “My bad. I only grabbed this child by the dick because I thought he wanted to have sex with me”

    Judge: “Understandable. Have a nice day”

  13. Serial assault of a minor is €1000. I’m sure lots of predators will be happy to hear this.

    Should be a long sentence and then deportation since he is non EU.( I’d happily have any EU or irish leave the country too fpr this resson but that’s not possible)

  14. who he hell is this demon that is keeping Nolan as a Judge? I really wish we, the people could get him out. like is there a legit way we can, cause i’m really tired about moaning about stuff and not getting anything done

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