‘I hope his guilt tortures him’ says woman assaulted by father
A woman who was sexually assaulted by her father from when she was aged 10 to 14 years had her “childhood taken from her” by a person she should have been able to trust, a judge has said.
Thomas Ryan, 58, with an address at Marlfield, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison after pleading guilty to 10 sample counts of sexually abusing his daughter, Simone Flanagan, between 2003 and 2008. The first charge, from November 14, 2003, related to the day she turned 10.
