{"id":114911,"date":"2025-10-31T22:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114911\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:26:13","slug":"you-are-the-abuser-you-are-the-rapist-monster-whose-sexual-abuse-of-four-victims-spanned-three-decades-jailed-for-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114911\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You are the abuser, you are the rapist\u2019 \u2013 \u2018monster\u2019 whose sexual abuse of four victims spanned three decades jailed for 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u201cYou are nothing but a coward. You ducked and dived all your life, but the jury saw through you. You are the abuser, you are the rapist,\u201d one victim said.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Declan Daly, 54, of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath. Pic: IrishPhotoDesk.ie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761949573_24_d9924d7e-0372-4784-a429-94ef0bca5044.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Declan Daly, 54, of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath. Pic: IrishPhotoDesk.ie<\/p>\n<p>Eimear Dodd and Fiona Ferguson<\/p>\n<p>Today at 21:19<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\"> A \u201cmonster\u201d whose sexual abuse of four victims spanned three decades has been jailed for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Declan Daly (54) of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath pleaded guilty before his trial to 12 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against three female victims on dates between 1982 and 2002. He was convicted at trial of three counts of raping a further victim in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou are nothing but a coward. You ducked and dived all your life, but the jury saw through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-114911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}