Sex assault victims: Trial as traumatic as abuse

Just one of the four victims of a Kerry farmer and former county council employee found guilty of 29 counts of sexual assault felt able to read out a victim impact statement at yesterday’s sentence hearing at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee

All were severely traumatised by the abuse and they were also traumatised and embarrassed by the trial and the court experience, the court was told.

Three of the girls were in court yesterday.