Childhood rapes left man 'incapable of compassion' to own children

The rapist also targeted his own daughter, who told the court: “I don't care for my life. I want to die most days. I feel so broke inside.”

The victim of a child rapist has told a court how the man subjected him to 12 years of sexual and mental torture.

The Mayo resident pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to 20 counts of oral and anal rape of the boy between August 1997 and and April 2008.