Man, 73, faces life term for raping daughters and abusing son

A 73-YEAR-OLD man faces life in prison after being convicted of raping his two daughters and sexually abusing his son.

A jury in the Central Criminal Court found him guilty of the majority of the 113 charges against him on Thursday and returned another nine convictions yesterday. They acquitted him of two counts of sexual assault and failed to agree on verdicts for another seven charges. Mr Justice George Birmingham had previously ordered them to return not guilty verdicts on a further 17 counts.

The Dublin man had pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting, raping and orally raping two daughters between the ages of five and 11 and sexually assaulting his son from the age of three to six at various locations from 1997 to 2002. The abuse happened in locations around the country including shopping centre toilets and on the DART.