The 44-year-old Dublin man engaged in a deliberate and calculated campaign of sexual abuse of his daughter, Mr Justice Paul Burns said. File photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
A man who repeatedly raped his young daughter and subjected his former partner to a “prolonged, horrific and cruel attack” in which she thought she was going to be murdered has been jailed for 18 years.
The 44-year-old Dublin man, who can’t be named to protect the anonymity of his victims, engaged in a deliberate and calculated campaign of sexual abuse of his daughter, who was aged between five and eight at the time, Mr Justice Paul Burns said as he sentenced the man on Tuesday.
“The nature of the of
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