Man jailed for 18 months for sexually assaulting nephew

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A man was jailed for 18 months after a jury convicted him of three counts of sexually assaulting his nephew on one day in December 1991.

The boy was six at the time. The judge said the man accepted the verdict and that arrangements had been made to meet his complex health needs in custody. The injured party told the court that the abuse had caused lasting trauma and that the weight he had carried for 34 years lifted after the verdict.