A 48-year-old serving garda is acquitted of raping his former wife but convicted of child cruelty involving his two daughters. The jury reaches its verdicts after more than nine hours of deliberations at Ireland’s Central Criminal Court following a trial that began at the end of the previous month. Prosecutors had brought charges including two counts of raping his then-wife, as well as offences relating to alleged cruelty and assault against his children. According to reports, the jury finds the garda not guilty of the rape charges against his former wife. The garda is instead found guilty of child cruelty affecting two of his daughters. One report notes that the garda cannot be identified to protect the statutory anonymity of the complainants. The garda has been remanded on bail, and the case is set to return to court for a sentence hearing on a scheduled date in late July, with the details of the punishment to be decided after conviction.