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	Campaigners are warning about the message sent out when a sex offender gets a suspended sentence.</p>
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	Dublin Rape Crisis Centre was reacting to the punishment handed down to a Wexford businessman for an attack on a young woman in Killarney in August 2011.</p>
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	The now 48-year-old dragged his victim into the spare bedroom of a Bed and Breakfast where he assaulted her.<br />
	Handing down sentence yesterday, the judge at Tralee Circuit Court noted the &quot;hugely traumatic effect&quot; the ordeal had on the victim, but also noted the man&#39;s guilty plea.</p>
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	The judge suspended a two-year jail term for two years and the offender he was also put on the sex offender&#39;s register.</p>
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	CEO of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre Ellen O&#39;Malley Dunlop says when an entire sentence is suspended, victims often feel they haven&#39;t got justice.</p>
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	She said: &quot;That doesn&#39;t give out a good message for victims, but we do hope that any current victims that is in the system will stay the course.</p>
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	&quot;Now this man, he has been named and he is on the sex offenders&#39; register for the next five years and I do hope that the victim, in this case, feels that she has got some justice.&quot;</p>
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	<a href="http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/suspended-sentences-for-rapes-sends-out-wrong-message-to-victims-629062.html">http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/suspended-sentences-for-rapes-sends-out-wrong-message-to-victims-629062.html</a></p>
