'I can now name the paedophile that ruined my life': Cork woman abused by uncle waives anonymity

Ten-year-old girl was abused while parents were away 

A jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court found him guilty of charges which stated that he carried out the sexual assaults while victim was in bed.

A ten-year-old girl spending a weekend at her aunt and uncle’s house while her parents went to a concert in Dublin was sexually assaulted by her uncle three times in one night and today he was jailed for three years.

Judge Helen Boyle said 70-year-old Michael O’Riordan, of 94 Friar Street, Cork, had been guilty of an egregious breach of trust by the molesting of Olivia McCarthy when she was only ten years old, in a case investigated by Detective Garda June O’Shea. The abuse happened around 30 years ago.