A 59-year-old man has pleaded guilty at Cork Criminal Circuit Court to 18 charges of sexual assault on two girls between 1979 and 1987. The assaults began on one girl when she was six and continued until she was nine, and on the other when she was 11, continuing until she was 14.
The court heard the assaults took place in Cork city, Ballyvolane and Glanmire. The defendant cannot be named to protect the identity of his victims. Judge Anthony Murphy adjourned sentence to February.