Father raped and sexually abused his four daughters in 'house of horror' over 16 years

One of the girls reported the abuse to Tusla in 2012 but then had to apologise to her father, saying she made it up, court heard

Judge said the campaign of sexual abuse the defendant, who is now in his late 40s, carried out on his four children was relentless. Picture: Larry Cummins

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An horrific case of a man sexually abusing his own four daughters over a total period of more than 15 years resulted in him being jailed on Friday for 17-and-a-half years at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork.