Mark O’Neill (58) from Battery Heights, Athlone was found guilty on eight counts of sexually assaulting his niece in the 1990s.
An uncle convicted of the child sexual abuse of his “favourite” niece in the 1990s, leaving her suffering decades of trauma and family isolation, has been jailed for three years.
“You are the most horrible and disgusting man I have ever endured. The pain you put me through; I was blackmailed to keep it quiet, sure I wasn’t to know any different,” Helena Flynn (42) told her abuser.
Mark O’Neill (58) from Battery Heights, Athlone, and recently of Belvedere Court, Mullingar, both in Co Westmeath, was aged 23 to 25
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