Father says sex-abuse allegations were ruse to get children back with mother
A father accused of sexually abusing his three children told gardaí that he had written a letter purporting to admit molesting his daughters but said the allegations were made so the children could get home from care.
The 73-year-old man has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting and raping two daughters between the ages of four and 11 and sexually assaulting his son from the age of three to six at various locations between 1995 and 2002.
