Rape centre praises judge for suspending jail term

A judge has been praised by Rape Crisis Mid-West for suspending a jail sentence handed down to a man who sexually abused his daughter over a number of years.

Organisation director Miriam Duffy praised Judge Carroll Moran for acceding to the victim’s wishes that her father not be jailed.

Ms Duffy was commenting on the case at Limerick Circuit Court, where Oliver Haskett, aged 61, with an address at Westbury, Limerick, was convicted of engaging in prolonged sexual abuse of his daughter, Sheila, who is now married with two children.