A man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl after befriending her on a social networking site has been remanded on bail ahead of his sentencing.
The 24-year-old Dublin man cannot be named for legal reasons.
He used a false name and claimed to be 19 when he requested a friendship with the teenager on Bebo.
He later admitted to her that he had used a false name and photograph but then became friends with the victim on another site and swapped phone numbers.
A number of text messages including some of a ‘sexual nature’ were exchanged before he arranged to meet the girl outside his local supermarket.
He has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to 2 charges of defilement of a child at his home on April 29th last year.
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