Man to be sentenced for raping teenage cousin

A Kilkenny man who claimed he was in a consensual sexual relationship with his younger cousin will be sentenced next week for rape and sexual assault of the then 14-year-old.

The 48-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the now 32-year-old-man, was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury last month of 15 counts of rape and oral rape and one charge of sexual assault following a trial.

The victim’s father left him to live him with his cousin in a rural town in Kilkenny when he was 14 and the man was aged 30.