Ten years for sexual abuse of stepchild

A Wicklow man has been jailed for 10 years for the regular and systematic abuse of his stepdaughter over a four-year period.

The victim, now aged 23, who last week described William Coster as “a horrible monster” who took her childhood, said she is happy for the media to name him.

Coster, aged 44, of Boghall Cottages, Boghall Rd, Bray, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to a number of sample counts of sexually assaulting her but had pleaded not guilty to additional charges of sex assault offences, as well as 13 charges of rape and 22 charges of anal rape. The victim was aged between 12 and 16 years old.