Paedophile jailed for abusing his daughter

A man has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment, with the final year suspended for three years, at the Central Criminal Court for the sexual abuse of his daughter over a decade-long period. The 50-year-old pleaded guilty to two attempted rapes and ten sexual assaults committed between 2003 and 2012 at the family farm and surrounding areas in County Sligo. The abuse began when the victim was five years old and occurred almost daily. The court heard the man had been diagnosed as a paedophile by a psychiatrist following an assessment linked to an addiction to pornography. The victim, now twenty, first disclosed the abuse to her school chaplain at seventeen. Mr Justice Tony Hunt ordered the man be registered as a sex offender and undergo eighteen months post-release supervision. The court noted there were other victims within the family beyond the primary complainant.