Mentally ill Corkman fails in sex abuse sentence appeal

A mentally ill Corkman has today failed in an appeal against his three-year sentence for sexually abusing his eight-year-old niece nearly 20 years ago.

In March last year, the now 40-year-old man pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of oral rape and two counts of sexual assault on the girl at his family home in Cork between November 1992 and November 1993.