The victim was approximately seven when the abuse started in 2001
A woman who was raped by her older brother when she was a child disclosed the abuse to her family on the night of the Late Late Toy Show in 2020 because she could not face another Christmas with him at the table.
He pleaded guilty before the trial to three counts of sexual assault and pleaded to two counts of oral rape during the trial. He said he had to take into account that the man was a juvenile for most of his offending and around 20 when the final incident of anal rape occurred. The judge said the court “believed there is a reasonable prospect of rehabilitation”, noting that the man had not come to garda attention since these offences occurred.
In a victim impact statement, the now 30-year-old woman read to the court, she said “the smell of vanilla coke turns my stomach”. The garda told the court there was a seven-year age gap between the man and his sister. The abuse started by him digitally penetrating her vagina when she was seven years old.
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