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.
Garda acquitted of rape charge but convicted of child cruelty
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...
- A 48-year-old serving garda is acquitted of raping his former wife.
- The jury finds him guilty of child cruelty involving two of his daughters.
- The verdicts are returned after more than nine hours of jury deliberations.
- The court does not identify the defendant due to statutory anonymity protections for complainants.
- The case returns to court for a sentence hearing after the bail remand.
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.
2 months agoThe jury returned its verdicts on Friday after more than nine hours of deliberations
2 months agoHe cannot be identified in order to protect the statutory rights of the complainants to anonymity.
2 months agoSuspended officer (48) remanded on bail, and case will return to court for sentence hearing on July 27
2 months agoJury returns verdicts after more than nine hours of deliberations
2 months agoA garda has been acquitted of raping his former wife but convicted of child cruelty against two of his children.
2 months agoThe garda has been acquitted of raping his wife but convicted of child cruelty against his two daughters.
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