Judge: Abuser stole his victims’ innocence

Two girls were subjected to depraved behaviour by a man who showed them pornographic magazines and sexually assaulted them.

Aidan Anthony (Tony) Lacey, jailed for six years yesterday, took away a lot of the childhood innocence of his victims, a judge noted.

Lacey, aged 54, of Sheilbaggan, Ramsgrange, New Ross, Co Wexford, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the two girls in the basement workshop of his home in Kerry between Jan 2007 and Feb 2008.