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- 18:34, 4 SEP 2025
A vicious sex offender who raped two teenage girls in the 1990s has been spared jail for flouting requirements to tell gardaí where he was living for over six weeks.
Anthony Dunne, aged 65, had been jailed for 12 years by the Central Criminal Court in 1999 but was released in 2008. Dunne pleaded guilty at Dublin District Court to a charge of failing to notify gardaí of his address between September 30 and November 17, 2022.
The charge under the Sex Offenders Act is punishable by a fine of up to €5,000 and a maximum 12-month sentence. Judge Áine Clancy imposed a two-month sentence but suspended it on conditions that Dunne complies with his obligations to keep gardaí informed of his current residence, and does not reoffend within the next 12 months.
Dunne, who is on social welfare payments, had a total of 39 prior convictions and did not address the court. Garda Patrick Hynes told Judge Clancy that the accused should have been staying at a specific hostel in Smithfield. Enquiries revealed that Dunne had not been staying there for almost seven weeks.
He had been subject to requirements under the Sex Offenders Act “for an indefinite period of time” and had not notified gardaí. At the time, the Act stated notification of address change must be done within a week, but the law has since been changed to three days.
Garda Hynes said the accused was convicted in 1999 of two counts of rape and received a 12-year sentence. This was his only breach of the failure to inform about where he was living, the Judge noted.
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