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A 57-YEAR-OLD labourer will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for sexually abusing his youngest sister several times a week between 1976 and 1982.

Christine Roche addressed her brother, Patrick Fitzgerald, in court, saying: “You took everything away from me. You shattered my innocence by teaching me things no child should ever have to know.”