Dublin man gets seven years for rape

A Dublin father of three who later prayed for a woman he had violently raped having just met her that night at a house party has been sentenced to seven years at the Central Criminal Court.

James Kelly (aged 30) of Willow Wood View, Hartstown, pleaded guilty on the morning of his trial to one count each of rape, anal rape and oral rape of the now 35-year-old woman at a Dublin apartment on April 4, 2007. He was registered as a sex offender.