‘When he couldn’t rape me in the conventional way, I think it turned to anger,’ says Jonathan Moran victim Bláthnaid Raleigh

Bláthnaid Raleigh says a cultural change needs to happen if sexual crimes are to be reduced. Photo: Frank McGrath

Catherine Fegan

Rape survivor Bláthnaid Raleigh has had a lot of time to ponder why her attacker used extreme violence against her.

Jonathan Moran raped her with a bottle in 2019 and it took five years for him to be sentenced to prison this week.