'It’s your shame,' Kerry woman tells her father who raped her 61 times since she was a child

The 82-year-old man has been convicted by a jury of raping her 61 times, three counts of indecent assault, and two charges of assault causing harm

In powerful victim impact evidence given from the witness box at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork, the now middle-aged woman turned to her father who sat in the dock — now convicted by the jury of raping her 61 times — and said: 'It’s your shame, your blame. You’re the one who destroyed your name and your family.' File picture: Larry Cummins

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A child who was raped by her own father through her childhood in Kerry turned directly to the 82-year-old on Friday, declaring: “It’s time to speak out, I’m not keeping your secret anymore.”