Judgment reserved in stepfather’s appeal against abuse conviction

A man given 12-year sentences for raping and sexually abusing his three step-children must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal.

The man aged 54, who cannot be named to protect the victims’ identities, abused the two girls and a boy after starting a relationship with their mother and moving to Ireland from abroad.

In one trial, he was found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury of 35 counts of sexual assault and rape of two of his step-children.