Edward Molyneaux told Gardaí he had sex with his daughter “about once a week”
An 82-year old man who raped his daughter from the age of 12 until she was in her early twenties has been jailed for fifteen years for putting her through a "sustained campaign of sexual abuse" and “degradation”.
The 59-year-old victim in the case waived her right to anonymity. Ms Justice Siobhan Lankford said that the abuse was at the highest level of the scale. She praised Mrs Murphy for delivering her victim impact statement to her abuser in a “powerful” and “direct” manner and wished her and her family well for the future. She said that the former mental health nurse, who also went on to work with teenagers, had succeeded in life in spite of an "appalling regime of abuse".
The trial had heard that when Gardaí questioned Mr Molyneaux in 2023, the pensioner admitted “playing sex games” with Marie. He recalled seeing her in sexual terms at the age of four. He said that he was “having sex” from the age of fourteen or fifteen. He told Gardaí he used a condom as he was “afraid that she might get pregnant” and that he had sex with her “about once a week”.
“It’s time to speak out, I’m not keeping your secret anymore, it’s your shame, your blame, you’re the one who destroyed your name and your family. "You beat me down, saying that I would amount to nothing in this life. I have succeeded in life. I could read you like an open book. You treated me as your sexual play thing, that a child should never know. You robbed me of the childhood innocence.”
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