22-year-old Cathal Crotty walked free from court last week after he was handed a three-year suspended sentence for an unprovoked assault
The sentence handed to a soldier who last week pleaded guilty to beating a woman unconscious in a Limerick street attack has been branded 'shocking but not surprising.'The 24-year-old victim, Natasha O'Brien, later toldJudge Tom O' Donnell said Mr Crotty's actions were"utterly appalling", but said he had"no doubt" if he imposed an immediate jail sentence on Mr Crotty his Army"career is over".
"We're seeing them constantly coming to us as a stream so it's not really a new piece of information to us.An Irish Defence Forces arm patch on a soldier, 19-10-16. Image: Andy Gibson / Alamygiven to Cathal Crotty. "It's absolutely shocking that a career of somebody who has perpetuated a crime such as this can take precedence over the crime itself nearly," she said.
"Women of Honour have been fighting to get this looked at and unearth the truths that are really going on."
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