Longford man (52) sentenced to 10-years for sexually assaulting girl he was trusted to babysit
The woman said through a victim impact statement that she struggled to give the evidence at Central Criminal Court trial before two teams of lawyers and 12 strangers. Photograph: Matt KavanaghA woman who was molested by a man who regularly babysat her has told a court that going through the trial process was as bad as the man abusing her again.
The man was known to the girl’s family and would often babysit her and her siblings. The court heard during a previous sentence hearing that the man had given the young girl his phone number and would often give her gifts of sweets and soft drinks.
Mr Justice Keane said it was an aggravating factor that the man was babysitting at the time of abuse. He noted that the offending took place in the victim’s home, which should have been a “sanctuary” for her, but the man’s actions turned it into a “place of humiliation and degradation”.
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