Man jailed for stepdaughter's rape

A man has been jailed for eight years at the Central Criminal Court for raping one of his stepdaughters in north Co Dublin.

A man has been jailed for eight years at the Central Criminal Court for raping one of his stepdaughters in north Co Dublin.

Mr Justice Philip O'Sullivan also jailed Stanley Hutchings (48), an Englishman with an address at Batchelors Lane, Drogheda, for five years concurrently on each of five charges of sexually assaulting the same victim and on five further charges of sexually assaulting her younger sister.

The victims asked the media to name Hutchings in reports.

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