'Devout-Christian' jailed for abusing girl 20 years ago

A 74 year-old Laois "devout Christian" who told a young female relative that if she revealed he was raping her the "shock would kill" her mother has been jailed for six years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

He pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to 16 charges of raping her on various dates from 1977 to 1981 and to one charge of indecently assaulting her in a shed on a date between May 1976 and 1977.