Unnamed 77-year-old jailed for sexual abuse of daughter

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An unnamed 77-year-old man was jailed for sexually abusing his teenage daughter at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 16 April 2024, receiving a two-and-a-half-year sentence.

The jury had convicted him after a trial the previous February on eight counts of indecent assault, relating to offences between 1985 and 1987 in Leinster.

Judge Sarah Berkeley set a five-year headline sentence before imposing the two-and-a-half-year term, taking account of the offending and the defendant’s very poor health, including cardiac difficulties.