Man jailed for eight and a half years for sexual assaults on child

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A man was jailed for eight and a half years after being convicted of two charges of sexually assaulting a girl at his Dublin home between July 2016 and July 2017. He cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court judge Elma Sheahan imposed concurrent sentences of six and a half and eight and a half years after reducing the headline sentences. She said the offending was a serious breach of trust and declined to suspend any part of the term. The man did not accept the jury’s verdicts.