Munster parents jailed for sexual abuse and wilful neglect

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The unnamed Munster father was jailed for 15 years and the mother for nine years for sexual abuse and wilful neglect at the Central Criminal Court on 18 January 2022.

The convictions covered sexual abuse of three children between August 2014 and April 2016, with the parents also convicted of wilfully neglecting five children.

The sentences were backdated to custody, followed by three years of post-release supervision and orders banning direct or indirect contact with the children. The parents and three other family members had been found guilty of all but one of 78 counts after a ten-week trial.