Garda (48) acquitted of raping wife but convicted of child cruelty
A garda has been acquitted of raping his wife but convicted of child cruelty against his two daughters.
The 48-year-old defendant went on trial in the Central Criminal Court at the end of last month, accused of two counts of raping his then wife, two counts of child cruelty and one count of assault causing harm to his now 24-year-old daughter and one count of child cruelty against his now 17-year-old daughter.
He had denied all the charges against him.
On Friday, the jury returned its verdicts after more than nine hours of deliberations.
They found the man not guilty of the two counts of raping his wife, which were alleged to have occurred on dates in 2009 and 2021.
The jury found him guilty of all four counts relating to the two daughters.
The cruelty offences against his older daughter occurred on unknown dates between 2007 and 2020, and the assault causing harm occurred on a date between late 2021 and early 2022 after she had turned 18.
The child cruelty count against his...
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