Bus driver jailed for 15 years for rape of stepdaughter and abuse of children

A Cavan bus driver has been sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment following his conviction for the sexual abuse of three children at the Central Criminal Court in June 2018. Shane Costello, aged 49 and from Ballyhaise in County Cavan, was found guilty after trial of rape, oral rape and attempted oral rape of his stepdaughter between 2012 and 2013, when she was aged thirteen to fourteen. He had initially pleaded…