Ireland Crime

Named as

Victim

Born

Between May 2004 and May 2005, from the ages reported

Offences

Defilement and sexual exploitation of a child

Where

Co. Dublin

Reporting

1 report, 16 May 2024 to 16 May 2024

Outlets

irishtimes.com

• Religious youth leader jailed for defilement and sexual exploitation in Dublin Defilement and sexual exploitation of a child · Co. Dublin

  Mark McMorrow, a 27-year-old religious youth leader from Cabinteely, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the defilement of 16-year-old Sophia Doyle on December 20th, 2020, and to sexual exploitation and communicating with a child for the purposes of exploitation between April 2019 and December 2020. The victim told a priest, who reported it to Tusla, which informed gardaí; McMorrow was interviewed at Dundrum Garda station and released without charge before later pleading guilty. In May 2024, Judge James McCourt sentenced him to two and a half years, with the final six months suspended conditional on his having no involvement with the Community of Nazareth and not communicating with the victim.

  Sentenced, 16 May 2024Victim · 1 report

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1. 16 May2024
   Sentencedirishtimes.com, in Religious youth leader jailed for defilement and sexual exploitation in Dublin

   Religious youth leader jailed for defilement and sexual exploitation of girl

   victim, Sophia Doyle, 19, female, irish (judged from name)Sophia Doyle♀19IE

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