Babysitter gets 7 years for sexually abusing cousin in Sligo

A Sligo man who sexually abused his young cousin while babysitting her has been jailed for seven and a half years.

The 28-year-old man, who can not be named to protect his victim’s identity, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexual assault of the child on a date between 2007 and 2010.

Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy noted that the man was an alcoholic and had a dysfunctional background, but said the lateness of his guilty plea afforded him only “modest credit”.