A man who raped a teenage girl he claimed he had married has been jailed for 15 years.
Kasenge Bangu, a native of the Congo, was convicted at the Central Criminal Court in December on four charges of raping the-then 15-year-old Zambian victim at an address in Wexford on dates from November 20th to December 7th, 2002.
He claimed he had married the girl after paying "a dowry of a goat, a length of fabric, a frying pan and $500".
He was found not guilty on one charge in relation to this victim and on two counts of anally raping another 13-year-old Zambian girl. One of these acquittals was by direction of the court.
The elder girl became pregnant as a result of Bangu raping her and was assisted by the then Eastern Health Board to have an abortion in England.
Mr Justice Barry White noted the victim impact statement reporter her as being "seriously scarred".
Mr Justice White imposed a 15-year sentence on each of the four counts of rape to run concurrently, and suspended the final two years to reflect time Bangu spent in custody in Zambia, where he was on trial in 2004 for similar charges in relation the same victims.