Man jailed for raping his three children

A Tipperary man who sexually abused and raped his three daughters in their Dublin family home over an 18-year period has been jailed for 17 years.

The 50-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his victims, pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to 44 charges of sexually abusing his daughters, 37 counts of raping his eldest daughter, one charge each of anal rape of this girl and oral rape of her younger sister, and one charge of issuing a threat to kill his youngest daughters on dates between October 1994 and July 2012.

He was found guilty on 75 charges following a trial last March. Ms Justice Margaret Heneghan declared the man a sex offender and praised the victims as “persons of very great courage and determination”.