10-year sentence for repeated abuse is upheld

The Court of Appeal has upheld a ten-year custodial sentence imposed on a man convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing his young cousin in County Donegal during the 1980s. The appellant, aged 53, had been found guilty on all twenty-four counts of indecent assault following trial in July 2019. He received consecutive sentences of four years for offences committed while a minor and six years for subsequent assaults…