‘Black magic made me rape my daughter’, court told

A man who said black magic was responsible for him raping and sexually assaulting his daughter has been jailed for six years at Dublin Central Criminal Court.

The man, aged 38, who cannot be named for legal reasons, believed his brother sent an evil spirit through his daughter, who was 19 at the time, to make him rape her, the court heard.

After committing the offence, he told a psychiatrist he felt an “overwhelming sense of energy through his body”, felt he was “possessed by an evil spirit”, and was horrified by what he did. He immediately went to gardaí to report what he had done.