'Perverted' teacher jailed as judge praises instincts of victim's mum
A secondary school teacher who preyed on a vulnerable young schoolgirl by engaging in sexually explicit conversations with her on Instagram over a 12-month period has been given a three-year jail sentence with the final two years suspended.
A sitting of Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court had previously heard Murphy, who resigned from his teaching job in 2022, had during text changes with the girl on Instagram asked her for naked pictures of herself and told her that he wanted to be the one to take her virginity. He also noted that the accused had no previous criminal convictions and had co-operated with gardái and provided them with passwords to his devices. The judge said an aggravating factor in the case was the gap in ages between the parties.
Murphy had also offered an unreserved apology to his victim and expressed his sincere remorse. The judge also accepted that Murphy had suffered the loss of his career as a teacher as well as some adverse publicity. They included that Murphy submit himself to the direction of the Probation Service for a period of two years upon release from prison and to provide the authorities with his contact details and his address and of any changes to them.
The offending came to light after the girl’s mother came across their online conversations on her daughter’s mobile phone and reported the matter to gardaí. In one text, he remarked that it was “just a pity plans to change the age of consent never happened.” Murphy also said that the age of consent was “pretty arbitrary.” “It is 15 in most of Europe and who is to say they are wrong.”
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