'She has nightmares about the monster': Man, 78, jailed for sexually abusing his toddler granddaughter

Child first revealed abuse to her mother during nightly story time, when a passage in a children's book was a trigger for the girl to make the disclosure, court heard

Court heard after an initial denial of what the child described, the defendant ultimately admitted to the family what he had done when challenged by the child’s parents. Picture: Dan Linehan

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A 78-year-old man who sexually abused his own four-year-old granddaughter was jailed on Monday four and a half years.