{"id":425664,"date":"2026-04-30T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:02:09","slug":"predator-who-coerced-teen-girl-into-sex-over-fabricated-e12k-drug-debt-jailed-for-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425664\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Predator\u2019 who coerced teen girl into sex over fabricated \u20ac12k drug debt jailed for nine years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Craig O'Connell of Hollyville, Hollyhill, Cork Photo: Collins Courts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5284c392-9acf-4886-b02f-3291d417980c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Craig O&#8217;Connell of Hollyville, Hollyhill, Cork Photo: Collins Courts<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A self-claimed \u201cdrugs lord\u201d who coerced a teenage girl to have sex with him by telling her she owed him a drug debt of \u20ac12,000 has been jailed for nine years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Craig O\u2019Connell (26) convinced the then 16-year-old he was a member of a criminal gang, then later claimed he\u2019d been caught with \u20ac12,000 of drugs, accusing her of informing on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig O&#8217;Connell of Hollyville, Hollyhill, Cork Photo: Collins Courts A self-claimed \u201cdrugs lord\u201d who coerced a teenage girl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43,60422],"class_list":["post-425664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-news-in-90-seconds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}