Man jailed for sexually assaulting family friend's four-year-old daughter

In a victim impact statement the victim, now an adult, said that the abuse left her feeling disgusted with her body. She said she was aged only eight when she tried to kill herself.

A man has been jailed for four years for the sexual assault of the four-year-old daughter of a family friend.

The 73-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the victim's anonymity, denied three counts of sexual assault on the child at locations in Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow some time between January 1985 and December 1987.