GALWAY MAN TO BE SENTENCED FOR ABUSING COUSIN

Date Published: 22-Jan-2013

A Galway man who raped and indecently assaulted his first cousin when he was a teenager will be sentenced next Monday.

The 45-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court, to one count of rape and six counts of indecent assault in Co Galway between January 1982 and April 1987.

The court heard that regular and sustained level of abuse went on three times a week when the victim was aged between six and 11 years old.

At the time, the accused man was aged from 15 to 19.