Wicklow man sentenced for rape and sexual assault of children

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A Wicklow man was sentenced to six years at the Central Criminal Court, reported on 8 June 2016, for raping and sexually assaulting two children.

He had pleaded guilty to four rape counts, threatening to kill and sexual assault between June 2013 and December 2014.

Justice McCarthy ordered the sentences for offences against each child to run consecutively, with five years of post-release supervision and treatment courses.