Galway man gets four years for raping sister when she was 8 and is 'scared and broken'

A Galway man has been sentenced to four years in prison with the final 18 months suspended for raping his eight-year-old sister in their family home when he was 17-years-old.

Galway man gets four years for raping sister when she was 8 and is 'scared and broken'

A Galway man has been sentenced to four years in prison with the final 18 months suspended for raping his eight-year-old sister in their family home when he was 17-years-old.

The now 54-year-old father of eight, denied the charge but was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury last month of raping the now 46-year-old woman between 1975 and 1976.

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