Man who sexually abused fiancee's three young daughters jailed for 10 years

A Meath man who sexually abused his fiancee's three young daughters in a “gross betrayal of trust” shortly after moving into their family home has been jailed for 10 years, writes Conor Gallagher and Isabel Hayes.

The girls' mother stood by her partner and destroyed evidence after one daughter confided that she had been raped by the man, the Central Criminal Court previously heard.