Ex-soldier faces sentence for reign of sex abuse

A CORK man who raped his partner’s adolescent daughter and sexually abused her younger sister as well as his own daughter will be sentenced today.

The reign of abuse at the hands of the former soldier spanned a total of 12 years, between 1990 and 2002.

At one stage the man tried to abuse one of his partner’s daughters when she was 16 and nearly seven months’ pregnant. Three weeks after she gave birth he caught her by the throat and pinned her against the wall.