Pakistani man guilty of public sex act on boy, 15
A Pakistani national who received oral sex from a 15-year-old boy on a city bus has been given a two-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Jawad Khan (aged 30) of Howth Road, Sutton appealed to the court for an order not to name him in the media because it would get back to his Muslim family in Pakistan and they would be thrown out of their village.
He said he also had a fiancée there and told gardaí that in his home country "sex with a woman is bad, sex with a man is death".
Khan, assistant manager of Spar in Bayside Shopping Centre, Sutton, pleaded guilty to "defilement of a child" on August 10, 2006.
Judge Delahunt directed that he be registered as a sex offender and said she accepted that Khan very much regretted his actions and "exhibited genuine remorse".
She said she was taking into account the fact that the teenager was considerably younger than Khan and that the boy had to undergo counselling.
Judge Delahunt suspended the last 12 months of the sentence for five years on the condition that Khan leave the jurisdiction within 24 hours of his release from prison and not return to Ireland for 10 years.
She refused an application by defence counsel, Mr Pieter Le Vert BL, to prevent the publication of his name in media reports. She said that naming Khan would not identify the victim and she could not see "any reason to differentiate this case from any other".
Detective Garda Cyril Kelleher told prosecuting counsel, Ms Caroline Biggs BL, that Khan sat beside the child on a Bus Átha Cliath vehicle and said: "Lets talk."
The two chatted before Khan opened his trousers and said "down" and "mouth" to the boy who performed oral sex on him for several minutes. Khan gave him his phone number before getting off the bus.
The boy later reported the incident to gardaí who, using Khan's phone number, were able to find out his identity and get a picture of him from the Immigration Bureau. They matched the picture with the CCTV images from the bus and arrested him.
Khan initially refused to make any admissions and was released but several days later came back to gardaí and said he "could not sleep or stay for one second in peace."
He pointed himself out on the CCTV footage but denied that the encounter with the boy was premeditated.
When asked did the boy's schoolbag not indicate he was underage, he replied: "I did not think he looked too young. I'm not here to defend myself or say that I did not do sex. I want to apologise to that guy."
Mr Le Vert said Khan was worried about press coverage of the case because "there is a large Muslim community in Dublin and everybody knows each other."
He said his client's parents were financially dependent on him and their lives would be ruined if people found out what he had done. He had handed in his notice to his job in Ireland because he felt it would be dishonourable to keep it.
Mr Le Vert added that Khan had some savings to return home and would not object if the court ordered him to leave the country.
