A Dublin man has been jailed for nine years at the Central Criminal Court for rapes and sexual assaults on a brother and sister over a number of years.
Mr Justice Paul Carney heard how the 40-year-old married father had been physically and sexually abused as a child at home and in school and was never visited by his mother during several years he spent in care.
He pleaded guilty to 18 sample charges out of 281 counts on the indictment after a jury had been sworn in for his trial last July.
Seven of the charges related to oral rape, two were for rape and nine counts for sexual assaults on dates from 1992 to 1997 at various north city suburban venues.