Man, 70, watched other man rape and abuse child

A man has admitted deriving sexual pleasure from watching the sexual abuse and rape by another man of a child as young as 10.

The 70-year-old from the Midlands looked on while the child was being abused over a four-year period, but declined an offer from the abuser to have sex with the girl or her sisters.

In June, the accused man pleaded guilty at Longford Circuit Court to four charges of sexual exploitation of a girl on unknown dates between 2005 and 2009 by watching her being sexually assaulted and raped.