A retired Dublin council worker has been jailed for six years for the repeated sexual abuse of his granddaughter. The 71-year-old man began abusing the child when she was aged around nine and continued to abuse her regularly for four years. The attacks happened about once a week and Judge Martin Nolan estimated the man molested the child over 150 times. Judge Nolan said there was a huge breach of trust and that a child was entitled to trust her grandfather. Judge Nolan said he must be punished and he refused a defence application to suspend part of the sentence.

Source: Irish Examiner January 15, 2020 16:07 UTC