Man gets five years for sexually abusing niece, 6, for three years

The girl's mother said her parents had disowned her and her daughter, and that her daughter could not understand why her grandparents did not want to see her when she had done nothing wrong.

Man gets five years for sexually abusing niece, 6, for three years

A Galway man has been jailed for five years after admitting the sexual abuse of his young niece for three years.

The man (aged 31), who cannot be named to protect his victim's identity, began abusing the child when she was six years old. The Central Criminal Court heard he later admitted to the Probation Services that he was aroused by her innocence.

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