A 49-year-old man from Longford has been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty pleas to seven charges of sexual abuse against four of his nieces. The charges included three counts of anal rape and one of sexual assault committed between 2001 and 2010, when the victims were aged seven, nine and 16 years old. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy imposed consecutive sentences and ordered five years post-release supervision. The court heard that the earliest abuse occurred around the time of one victim's First Holy Communion, which the judge described as particularly poignant given its associations with innocence. The judge noted the offences represented a grave breach of trust by the accused as their uncle. Victim impact statements detailed lasting trauma, including panic attacks, sleep disturbance and psychological damage. The defence outlined the accused man's significant cognitive limitations and poor educational background.
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