78-year-old man jailed for raping daughter in Mayo

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A 78-year-old man was jailed for four years at the Central Criminal Court, reported on 18 June 2018, after pleading guilty to five sample charges of carnal knowledge without consent.

The offences occurred at the family home in Mayo between July 1973 and November 1974, while the victim was a child.

The sentence was backdated to May, and the judge cited the victim’s suffering, the man’s age and his precarious health.