Guilty plea to imprisonment of 16-year-old boy
me,” she said.
She said she sometimes gets up in the middle of the night to check doors and windows are locked.
“If he had pleaded guilty and apologised, I could have forgiven him. But he taunted us at every opportunity, he showed no remorse, was arrogant, and told nauseating lies,” she said.
The second woman said in her victim impact statement that she was still coming to terms with the incident that destroyed the last three years of her life.
“It is impossible to underestimate what has been done to me unless you’re standing in my shoes,” she said. “He carried my listless body into a bedroom where he violated and raped me.”
“I am fearful this statement will not do justice to the pain and humiliation I suffered and I’m scared of that failure,” she said.
The woman said she recalled lying on the examination bed at a hospital the following day and crying her heart out because she had never felt so lonely.
Both victims said Limen’s refusal to give gardaí a blood sample in order to test him for sexually transmitted diseases, caused them considerable distress.
“I had to go to an STD clinic, which was humiliating as I am a married woman. The anti-HIV medication made me violently sick and extremely gaunt. It was an extra blow to put us through,” one woman said.
Both women praised their partners, family and friends for supporting them, but said every person in both of their lives have suffered as a result of Limen’s crimes.
Kieran O’Loughlin SC, defending, told the court that Limen was a university graduate from Cameroon, who had been living in Ireland for seven years, and had no previous convictions.
The court heard Limen intends to appeal his conviction as he does not accept the jury’s verdict and to separately make a constitutional challenge regarding the terms of his detention.
Mr Justice Coffey said the crime was aggravated by the “trauma and anguish” it caused the victims.
He said there was no “evidentiary basis” for suspending any part of the sentence.
He also imposed a sentence of four years for the sexual assault count and ordered that all three sentences run concurrently A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the false imprisonment and assault causing harm of a 16-year-old boy at 57 Glendallon, Ballytivnan, Sligo on April 23rd last.
Harry Andrews of Glendallon entered guilty pleas to the two tw offences at a sitting of Sligo Circuit Court last Tuesday before be Judge Keenan Johnson.
The defendant was represented by Mr Michael Bowman SC with wi Mr Keith O’Grady BL, instructed by Mr Tom MacSharry, solicitor. sol
The case was adjourned for sentencing to the next sittings of the Circuit Court beginning on February 13th.
The defendant was remanded in custody. A victim impact statement sta was also ordered to be prepared for the adjourned date. da
Ms Dara Foynes BL appeared on behalf of the prosecution instructed ins by Mr Hugh Sheridan, State Solicitor.