Man sentenced for assaulting pregnant partner

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The man was sentenced to two and a half years, with nine months suspended, for assault at the Central Criminal Court, reported on 25 May 2016. He pleaded guilty to assaulting his partner at a Dublin address on 14 October 2015, when she was seven months pregnant. He had punched her in the face twice.

The man was acquitted of raping and sexually assaulting his partner by a Central Criminal Court jury after a trial earlier that month. The sentence was backdated to his first day in custody in October 2015.