A 65-year-old man suggested he had killed a former partner to ensure the young girl he was sexually abusing would not tell anyone, a court has heard. Detective Garda Ken McGreevy told Pauline Walley SC, prosecuting, that the girl had been staying in a camper van with both adults. The girl subsequently told specialist garda child interviewers that the man had digitally penetrated her between 20 and 50 times over the past number of years. Det Garda McGreevy told Ms Walley that the man made the girl promise not to tell and made reference to killing a former partner. Det Garda McGreevy agreed with Feargal Kavanagh SC, defending, that his client couldn’t bring himself to give full admissions during interview but was accepting “some degree of paedophilia”.

Source: The Irish Times March 15, 2019 16:41 UTC