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A CONVICTED Clare sex offender has been found guilty by a jury of sexually abusing two of his daugh- ters in a County Offaly townland.
The Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury returned 10 guilty verdicts by a majority of sexual assault on two of his daughters on dates between Sep- tember 2001 and December 2004. He was acquitted on one count.
The court heard that the 36-year-old man received two concurrent 10-year sentences from the Central Criminal Court in 1993 for aggravated sexual assault and burglary.
The final six years were suspended on condition that he stay away from
two named Limerick villages and not re-offend during the six years.
The court heard that one of his 10 new convictions was for an offence committed within those six years.
Judge Desmond Hogan directed the preparation of victim impact re- ports for the sentence hearing early next year.
The jury of five women and seven men returned its verdicts on day 14 of the trial, following some five hours of deliberation.
Judge Hogan told the jury it was the first to have had video-recorded interviews with one of the victims admitted as evidence as a result of Section 16 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006.