An 11 and a half-year jail sentence was handed down to a Clare father who had sexually assaulted and raped his daughter over a 13-year period, reports Breaking News.
Following a trial in February before the Central Criminal Court on 48 sample charges, including 25 counts of rape and 23 instances of indecent assault, Patrick Honan, 70, was found guilty.
Noreen Honan, the victim in this case, has given up her right to remain anonymous so that her father can be identified, reports Breaking News.
When she was between three and a half and sixteen years old, the abuse occurred in the family’s Lake View, Doonbeg, County Clare residence between 1977 and 1989.
Inappropriate touching, oral and vaginal rape, forced kissing, masturbation, and digital vaginal penetration were among them, reports Breaking News.
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