Man who sexually abused his son as a boy will serve jail time after sentence for abuse of girl ends

Victim and defendant's other adult children had asked for leniency for their father over concerns about his declining health

The defendant is serving a sentence for sexually assaulting a girl who was no relation of his when she was about eight. Monday’s sentence will commence at the expiration of that sentence. Picture: Larry Cummins

A 70-year-old man will have to serve another two years and four months on top of another sentence for the sexual abuse of his youngest son when the boy was aged between five and nine.

Judge Fiona O’Sullivan imposed a consecutive sentence of three years and six months, with one year and two months of that suspended on Monday, in a case where the victim and the defendant’s other children wrote letters to the judge asking for leniency for their father.