UNNAMED DAD gets a slap on the wrist for virtually destroying the lives of his daughters, now women. No mention of a mother in the home. Was there one?
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/criminal-court/clare-man-jailed-for-indecently-assaulting-his-two-daughters-1.2068689
Clare man jailed for indecently assaulting his two daughters
Man (80) sentenced to four and a half years for abuse in early 1970s
The man was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault after a week-long trial at the Central Criminal Court.
Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 15:54
First published:
Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 15:30
An 80-year-old man has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for indecently assaulting his two daughters in Co Clare during the early 1970s.
The man, who cannot be named in order to protect the anonymity of his victims, was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault after a week-long trial at the Central Criminal Court last month.
He had pleaded not guilty to 18 counts of indecently assaulting his daughter in a house and later a caravan in Co Clare on unknown dates between January 1971 and December 1973. She was aged between 11 and 13 at the time.
The man had also denied indecently assaulting another daughter twice in 1980 at a caravan in Co Clare, when she was aged 11 or 12.
During his trial, he made admissions to one of these offences. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy said he was effectively treating that admission as a plea of guilty.
The man was found not guilty of the second count in relation to his younger daughter.
Mr Justice McCarthy said the man’s abuse of his older daughter was at the most serious end of the scale of offending and involved the fundamental breach of trust of a particularly vulnerable child.
He said the abuse included incidents of “squalidity”.
The judge said the man’s age was the only mitigating factor, but that it was not significant as he seemed a healthy man.
The sentence was backdated to June 15th, 2014.
Mr Justice McCarthy also ordered the man be registered as a sex offender.
Det Gda Donal Corkery told Conor Devally SC, prosecuting, that the man’s daughter was nearly 11 when he started abusing her. He told her it was a loving relationship and that he wanted to have a child by her.
During the trial, the woman said her father told her he could not fight his feelings for her and that she would “learn to like it”.
The woman read out a victim impact statement to the court in which she said she had suffered from panic attacks, anxiety, nightmares and constant fear from an early age because of her father’s abuse. She said she has struggled to cope with what happened, and also with the fact that people might think she was a willing participant.
The woman said she found it very difficult to give evidence during the trial and felt she was reliving the abuse all over again. “I still live in fear of this man,” she said of her father.
Mr Justice McCarthy said the man’s other daughter was also the victim of a “grave breach of trust” and that the offence against her was at the middle range on the scale of seriousness. He said the accused had taken her to a caravan over a number of weeks, spoken to her of sexual matters and indecently assaulted her.
A victim impact statement was also read out on behalf of the second victim. She said she has suffered from anxiety attacks depression for years and has huge trust issues with men, including her husband. The woman said she never wants to leave home and feels a “dark cloud” hanging over her.
The man has no previous convictions.
Michael Bowman SC, defending, said the man did his best to provide for his children in terms of maintenance.
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Dad avoids jail even after admitting to creating, distributing child porn (United Kingdom)
The typical coddling of a sexually abusive, porn sick dad. Dad is identified as BOBBY LAY.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/08/19/father-avoids-jail-after-downloading-images-of-child-abuse/
PUBLISHED: August 19, 2014 11:59 am
Father avoids jail after downloading images of child abuse
A father who downloaded dozens of vile photos showing adults abusing young children has been spared a prison sentence.
Police found the pornographic pictures on Bobby Lay's laptop after carrying out a raid at his Wolverhampton home, Stafford Crown Court heard.
In his web browser's history, Lay had used search terms such as '14-year-old models' and 'underage porn pictures'.
Mr Neil Ahuja, prosecuting, said an examination of the computer also showed that he had uploaded two of the indecent photos on to a file-sharing website.
Lay, aged 33, of Sherwood Street, Whitmore Reans, admitted four charges of making indecent images of children and two of distributing indecent images.
He was given a three-year community order with sex offender treatment and ordered to register as a sex offender for five years, banned from working with children indefinitely and told to pay £535 costs.
Judge Paul Glenn told him: "The police found a number of indecent images at levels one to four on your laptop.
"The pictures were both girls and boys and some plainly very young.
"You raised the suggestion of a virus - I am tempted to say I have heard all that before. You mention anxiety and depression.
"Your final position seems to be you have no recollection of downloading - I find that hard to accept and I find it hard to accept you have no sexual attraction to children.
"You suffer from post traumatic stress, you have plainly been affected by finding out the quite tragic details of your early childhood. In your case there is more to be gained from rehabilitation rather than locking you up for a short period."
Mr Ahuja said the indecent pictures, found following the search on May 22 last year, comprised 397 at the least serious level one; 25 at level two; 68 at level three and 87 at the serious level four depicting children being abused by adults.
Some of the children were as young as four, while many were in the range of five to 10 years old.
Initially, Lay claimed there was a virus on his computer, then said he had been confused and that he had no sexual interest in children.
Mr Andrew Wallace, defending, said: "This is not a particularly aggravated case, it's a modest number of images and doesn't demonstrate someone who's poring over the internet looking for images of abuse."
Lay, who has a partner and a young son, was reluctant to accept what he had done because of the disgust shown by others.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/08/19/father-avoids-jail-after-downloading-images-of-child-abuse/
PUBLISHED: August 19, 2014 11:59 am
Father avoids jail after downloading images of child abuse
A father who downloaded dozens of vile photos showing adults abusing young children has been spared a prison sentence.
Police found the pornographic pictures on Bobby Lay's laptop after carrying out a raid at his Wolverhampton home, Stafford Crown Court heard.
In his web browser's history, Lay had used search terms such as '14-year-old models' and 'underage porn pictures'.
Mr Neil Ahuja, prosecuting, said an examination of the computer also showed that he had uploaded two of the indecent photos on to a file-sharing website.
Lay, aged 33, of Sherwood Street, Whitmore Reans, admitted four charges of making indecent images of children and two of distributing indecent images.
He was given a three-year community order with sex offender treatment and ordered to register as a sex offender for five years, banned from working with children indefinitely and told to pay £535 costs.
Judge Paul Glenn told him: "The police found a number of indecent images at levels one to four on your laptop.
"The pictures were both girls and boys and some plainly very young.
"You raised the suggestion of a virus - I am tempted to say I have heard all that before. You mention anxiety and depression.
"Your final position seems to be you have no recollection of downloading - I find that hard to accept and I find it hard to accept you have no sexual attraction to children.
"You suffer from post traumatic stress, you have plainly been affected by finding out the quite tragic details of your early childhood. In your case there is more to be gained from rehabilitation rather than locking you up for a short period."
Mr Ahuja said the indecent pictures, found following the search on May 22 last year, comprised 397 at the least serious level one; 25 at level two; 68 at level three and 87 at the serious level four depicting children being abused by adults.
Some of the children were as young as four, while many were in the range of five to 10 years old.
Initially, Lay claimed there was a virus on his computer, then said he had been confused and that he had no sexual interest in children.
Mr Andrew Wallace, defending, said: "This is not a particularly aggravated case, it's a modest number of images and doesn't demonstrate someone who's poring over the internet looking for images of abuse."
Lay, who has a partner and a young son, was reluctant to accept what he had done because of the disgust shown by others.
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