A man jailed for sexually assaulting four-year-old girl

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A man was jailed for eight and a half years for sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 22 April 2020.

The assaults happened at his Dublin home between July 2016 and July 2017, while his partner was babysitting the child.

He was convicted in January after a nine-day trial and had denied the charges. The sentence followed convictions on two charges of sexually assaulting the girl.

The sentences were reduced to six and a half years and eight and a half years, to run concurrently. The judge did not suspend any part of the prison term.