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11 years for agressive child rapist who held knife to victim's throat
Summary
An Irish man aged 46 was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment for repeated rape and sexual assault of a girl aged 8‑11 between August 2014 and August 2017. The offences, committed at his Wexford home, included eight counts of rape, nine of anal rape, eight of oral rape and nine of sexual assault. The court noted a particularly violent incident in which he tied the victim to a bed and held a knife to her throat, threatening her. He was found not guilty of three other rape counts. The judge imposed concurrent sentences of nine years and seven months for the anal and oral rape counts and four years and ten months for the sexual assault counts, with a two‑year post‑release supervision order. The sentence was back‑dated to the date he entered custody after the trial.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: 11 years for agressive child rapist who held knife to victim's throat. Procedural stage: sentence. Findings: Acquitted
When:
- August 2014 Incident
- August 2017 Incident
- February 2018 Hearing Or Sentence
- January 2019 Incident
- 2023-06-27 Publication
Case subjects
Convicted Person
Finding: Acquitted
Outcome: Acquitted; By Eimear Dodd An aggressive child rapist has been jailed for 11 years for the repeated abuse of a young girl over a three-year period, which included an attack where he held a knife to her throat. Ms Justice O'Connor imposed a sentence of 11 years in relation to the rape charges, backdated to the date the man entered custody following the end of the trial.
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