Cork woman learns uncle had told her mother 30 years ago he had sexually assaulted her

The court heard that unknown to the victim until very recently, gardaí had approached her mother and she refused to give gardaí permission to interview her

The accused man pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to rape the child and 19 counts of indecent or sexual assault, mainly in the late 1980s. File photo: Larry Cummins

A woman who went to the Gardaí in 2019 with a complaint that her uncle had sexually assaulted her repeatedly and once tried to rape her learned for the first time that he had confessed the crimes to her mother about 30 years ago but she would not let gardaí interview her daughter.

On Monday – over 30 years since the crimes were committed – the 68-year-old man has been jailed for four years with the last two-and-a-half years of that sentence suspended.