Kielan Mooney was convicted of anal rape, oral rape, and rape of a fellow soldier at a Dublin hotel in 2021. He will be sentenced in January 2024.
A member of the Irish Defence Forces will be sentenced next January for the rape of a fellow soldier at a Dublin hotel three years ago. Kielan Mooney (30) of Bloomfield Park, Derry, was convicted following a trial at the Central Criminal Court earlier this month on a count of anal rape, oral rape and rape of the woman at the Dublin hotel on July 26, 2021.
He had pleaded not guilty to a total of six charges, two charges of rape, two charges of oral rape, a charge of anal rape and a charge of sexual assault. The jury failed to reach a verdict on the three remaining charges. The now 24-year-old woman, who is also a serving soldier of the Irish Defence Forces, has indicated that while she is content for Mooney to be named in the reporting of the case, she does not wish to be identified. Garda Riche Moyston told Patrick Gageby SC, prosecuting, that the woman was out socialising with other army members that night when they met a group of soldiers from Mooney’s barracks in Donegal. She and Mooney got speaking and they decided to go back to the woman’s friend’s hotel room in the city centre. The woman told the trial that Mooney anally raped her in her friend’s hotel room. She said she had asked him to stop but he did not. Afterwards she went to the bathroom and was crying. She managed to text her friend. Mooney came into the room and asked her what was wrong before he took her by the hand and brought her back into the bedroom. Mooney then forced the woman to perform oral sex on him before he pushed her onto the bed and raped her. The woman was very distressed. She managed to get back into the bathroom and phoned her friend who told her that she and two other male friends were nearly at the hotel. Gda Moyston said when the woman’s friends arrived Mooney was dresse
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