Shorten separately facing sentence for rapes of two young women on different dates in 2022
A Dublin taxi driver is to be sentenced later this month for raping a girl when she was aged seven or eight.
Shorten, aged 37 or 38 at the time, laid the girl down on the floor of a bathroom and raped her. The second rape happened in the bedroom of a family member when the girl found herself alone with Shorten.A Garda investigation began in late 2020 after the girl left a handwritten note on her grandmother’s pillow about what Shorten had done.
She was terrified the first time he raped her, she said. One part of her knew it could not be right but the other part thought it must be normal because why else would an adult man do that to a seven-year-old child.After the rapes and sexual assault, she started to experience strong emotional outbursts, screaming, shouting, hitting walls. “I just wanted to get my anger out. I felt so claustrophobic not going how to get these emotions out of me.,” she said.
Being cross-examined was nerve-wracking but when he was found guilty and convicted, she felt the beginnings of closure. Her life has been seriously impacted by the abuse in many ways. She still fears being in the places where it happened. When Mr Justice Naidoo said matters concerning prison behaviour did not appear to be mitigation factors, Mr Staines said it depends on the nature and context of the offence. His client does not accept responsibility for the offences of which he was convicted, counsel said.
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