13-year sentence for man who raped and sexually abused nieces

A 49-year-old man from Longford was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court in May 2017 following his guilty pleas to seven charges of sexual abuse against four of his nieces. The offences, committed between 2001 and 2010, included three counts of anal rape and one count of sexual assault. The victims were aged seven, nine and 16 at the time of the abuse. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy imposed…