Unnamed mother jailed 15 years for facilitating rape of daughter

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The unnamed mother was jailed for 15 years for facilitating her daughter’s rape at the Central Criminal Court on 26 January 2026; the rape occurred in March 2003.

She was also sentenced to five years for each of two sexual assaults when the child was four; those terms run concurrently with the 15-year term.

The jury convicted her of facilitating rape and two sexual assaults in July 2025. It acquitted her on two further sexual assault charges, returned not-guilty verdicts on seven others by direction, and could not agree on two more sexual assault charges.