The man was deemed a “danger to society” by a lady who was raped, stabbed, and beaten by a stranger who broke through her bedroom window while she was asleep, reports RTE.
A 15-year jail sentence and an 8-year post-release supervision order were imposed on Edmund O’Sullivan after Mr. Justice Paul McDermott said that “the overall supervision of this man must be closely monitored.”
“It is necessary to protect others in society having regard for the dangerous and escalating nature of his offending,” the judge said, reports RTE.
On March 14, 2024, O’Sullivan, who is originally from Cork and does not have a fixed address, entered a guilty plea to rape, anal rape, and threatening to murder or seriously hurt the lady at her flat in Tralee, County Kerry, before the Central Criminal Court.
Ten days after being freed from prison, he was sleeping on the streets of Tralee, reports RTE.
O’Sullivan had been freed from a three-year sentence with the last six months suspended for stabbing another lady in her flat in 2022, just 10 days before this crime.
Four of his 108 prior convictions were for attacks on women.
O’Sullivan’s conduct has not changed after partially suspended sentences in the past, according to Mr. Justice McDermott, who also stated that it was crucial that he not be allowed to roam free in society unattended as this may expose “some future victim to a similar occurrence,” reports RTE.
He stated that it is crucial that “these matters are addressed by those who have his custody to offer some measure of protection against further violence, particularly against women.”
The young woman, who was characterised as extremely traumatised in court, said in her victim impact statement that although she is still working to reconstruct her life, a part of her has been permanently altered, reports RTE.
“I did nothing to deserve this, but I was left bloodied, broken and violated,” she stated in court, reports RTE.
“I don’t think O’Sullivan regrets his actions at all, and I’m just sorry he got caught,” she added, reports RTE.
She asserted that O’Sullivan is “a danger to society” and that she cannot emphasise this enough.
According to the woman, she prays that justice is done for other women he could try to hurt as well as for herself, reports RTE.
O’Sullivan’s history of aggression against women is concerning, according to Mr. Justice McDermott.
“Devastating consequences for his latest victim” resulted from O’Sullivan’s continuing cycle of drug use, criminality, incarceration, and release from jail without accommodations, he added.
The lady “believed with every fibre in her being that if she had not fought back she would not be here today, but she said the cost of surviving has been immense,” the court observed in her victim impact statement, reports RTE.
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