A man who admitted grooming his daughter before raping and sexually assaulting her, after which she became pregnant, has received a 12-year sentence to run consecutively to an earlier jail term for raping two other teenage girls.
The 42-year-old man pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping the eight-year-old girl from April 20th, 2000, to April 14th, 2007.
Mr Justice Paul Carney, who previously imposed a 12-year sentence on him for raping two other teenagers, said the man had a “propensity when faced with adversity to rape children and young girls”.
He ordered that the 12-year term for raping his daughter begin “upon the lawful termination” of the earlier sentence.