Man jailed for eight and a half years for sexually assaulting four-year-old girl

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A 59-year-old man was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl his partner was babysitting. He had been convicted of two charges relating to assaults at his Dublin home between July 2016 and July 2017.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court imposed concurrent sentences of six and a half years and eight and a half years for the two offences. The judge said the offending was a serious breach of trust and declined to suspend part of the sentence.