A man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl after befriending her on a social networking site has been remanded on bail pending sentence.
The 24-year-old Dublin man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, used a false name and claimed to be 19 when he requested a friendship with the teenager on Bebo. He brought her back to the home he shared with his parents. They went upstairs to his bedroom and kissed before he asked for oral sex. He later had sex with the teenager and anal sex. They then had sex a second time before going into the sitting room.
The man’s father, who had been in the back garden during the incident, came into the room and his son claimed he had been giving the teenager guitar lessons.
The man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two charges of defilement of a child at his home on April 29th, 2011.