Dublin man jailed 20 years for rape and sexual assault

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A Dublin man was jailed for 20 years by the Central Criminal Court, reported on 23 March 2018, after convictions for raping and sexually assaulting his grandson and daughters.

The unnamed man, aged 68, was convicted of indecently assaulting and raping his grandson between 2004 and 2015, when the boy was aged four to 15.

He later pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting three daughters, attempting to rape one and raping another between 1981 and 1987. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy imposed the sentence with some consecutive elements and described the abuse as a grim catalogue across two generations of the family.