Man gets 8 years for repeatedly raping young nephews; Victim says 'he abused me like an animal'

The victims waited to come forward about the abuse until after their grandparents had died, for fear of how the revelations about their son would affect them.

A Dublin man who repeatedly raped his two nephews when they were small boys has been jailed for eight years.

James Maher (aged 64) inflicted “pain and violence” on his young nephews, who were aged just eight and six when he started abusing them 37 years ago, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.