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Father jailed for repeated rape and abuse of daughter | BreakingNews (opens the original)
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A 14-year-old girl has told the Central Criminal Court that she is “standing proud and happy that I spoke up” in relation to her father’s repeated rape and abuse of her when she was a younger child. The 45-year-old man pleaded guilty to four charges of rape and eight charges of sexual assault of his young daughter in their Co Wexford home on dates between January 2022 and June 2024. The State accepted these pleas on the basis that they were sample charges and representative of a pattern of repea
Doctor jailed for rape, coercive control and assault of wife (opens the original)
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A doctor has been jailed for 10 years for the rape, coercive control and assault of his wife over three years. The 46-year-old man pleaded guilty to charges of assault causing harm but had denied two charges of rape and one of coercive control. He was convicted of these charges following a trial at Sligo Central Criminal Court earlier this year. The sentence hearing was also held in Sligo. The court heard that the couple met in Sudan and were married in 2010 and later went on to have three child
Thief and convicted rapist caught after answering video call on stolen phone (opens the original)
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A thief and convicted rapist who was caught after he answered a video call on the phone he had just stolen has been told he will spend another two years in custody. Patrick Maughan (27) of Poddle Close, Kimmage, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to theft of a mobile phone on Harolds Cross Road, Terenure on September 15th, 2023. An additional charge of assault causing harm was taken into account after the court heard that Maughan’s accomplice, who is currently unlawfully at large, w
Man (39) jailed for regularly raping niece as a child | BreakingNews (opens the original)
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A man has been jailed for four years for the regular rape of his niece over a two-year period while she was a child. The 39-year-old man pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to four charges including rape and oral rape on dates between July 2000 and July 2002. He was 14 to 16 years old at the time of the offence while the girl was between six and eight years old. A local detective told the court that the woman made a complaint to gardaí in December 2021. She said her uncle lived with her
Man jailed for arson and robbery months after release over killing of teen girl | BreakingNews (opens the original)
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A man who had just served a jail term for his role in killing a 16-year-old girl in 2012 has been jailed for setting fire to a car and robbery of a shop last year. Keith Hall (37) had just been released from serving a sentence after he was convicted of the manslaughter of Melanie McCarthy-McNamara, who was shot dead as she sat in a car in Tallaght on February 8, 2012. She was in the passenger seat of a car with her boyfriend and another man when she was shot with a double-barrelled sawn-off shot
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