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February 22 2023 10:42 AM
A man who put his hand up a woman’s dress and groped her on the dance floor has been spared jail or a criminal record.
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Dance floor groper who put his hand up a woman’s dress spared criminal record
Judge Maire Conneely gave him the benefit of the Probation Act after hearing he had an “unblemished past” and was normally respectful to women.
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A man who put his hand up a woman’s dress and groped her on the dance floor has been spared jail or a criminal record.
Rodolpho Aguilar (29) was unknown to the woman when he sexually assaulted her from behind as she danced in a busy Dublin club.
Judge Maire Conneely gave him the benefit of the Probation Act, leaving him without a recorded conviction after hearing testimonials that he had an “unblemished past” and was normally respectful to women.
Aguilar, of Belmont Hall, Gardiner Street Middle, Dublin pleaded guilty to sexual assault.
Dublin District Court heard the incident happened at a nightclub on Wexford Street on a date in October 2018.
The victim was out socialising with her then-boyfriend and a group of friends on the night.
She was on the dance floor when the accused came from behind and groped her genital area by placing his hand up her dress.
There was no penetration, the court heard. The accused had no previous convictions.
In her garda statement, the woman had said: “I felt a hand from behind, the hand did not go under my knickers.”
“It felt like it went on for ages, but I know it didn’t, it was only like a second and a half,” she said.
Defence solicitor Mark O’Sullivan said it was a “quite measured” statement by the victim.
Rodolpho Aguilar (29) was unknown to the woman when he sexually assaulted her from behind as she danced in a busy Dublin club.
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