Man to be sentenced for Leitrim and Mayo sex assaults

A man will be sentenced later this month for sexually assaulting and anally raping his young stepdaughter in Leitrim and Mayo over a four-year period.

The man (aged 37) pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to six sample counts of sexual assault and two counts of anally raping his stepdaughter in their home between 2004 and 2008 from when she was six years old.