A man has been jailed for 20 years for the repeated rape and sexual abuse of his younger sister and seven daughters over a 23-year period.
James O'Reilly, 75, subjected the young girls to “horrific” sexual abuse, as well as physical beatings, starvation and degradation, the Central Criminal Court, Dublin, heard on Monday morning.
During the abuse, which took place between 1977 and 2000, O'Reilly raped one daughter, which caused her to become pregnant in late 1988.
He continued to rape her during the pregnancy. At the time O’Reilly told his daughter to allege she had been raped by another man.