A GAA coach who "destroyed" a boy's life through repeated rapes, physical abuse and humiliation followed by three years of harassment has had his nine-year prison sentence increased to 13 years by the Court of Appeal.
Ms Justice Burns described the offending as "unusual, shocking and extremely disturbing". She added: "The injured party, a child for nearly all the offending, and a young man attempting to make his way in the world at the conclusion of the offending, was treated in a manner devoid of humanity, morality and respect."
There were further assaults in public and on one occasion the offender locked his victim in an office where he beat him up, smashed his phone, punched him in the testicles and sexually abused him. The ordeal lasted for two to three hours. The appeal court put the offending in the most serious category, carrying a headline sentence of 17 years on the count of oral rape.
The sentencing court heard that the man met his victim - then a boy in fourth class and 11 years his junior - while coaching GAA at a primary school.
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