59-year-old man jailed for sexual assaults on child

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A 59-year-old man was jailed for eight and a half years for sexually assaulting a child at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 22 April 2020. The child was four when the repeated assaults occurred at the man’s Dublin home between July 2016 and July 2017.

The man was convicted of two charges after a nine-day trial. Judge Elma Sheahan said the offending was an egregious breach of trust and ordered concurrent sentences of six and a half and eight and a half years after mitigation.