{"id":119652,"date":"2025-11-03T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/119652\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:44:09","slug":"man-jailed-for-17-years-for-cold-campaign-of-rape-of-stepdaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/119652\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for 17 years for cold \u2018campaign of rape\u2019 of stepdaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Criminal Courts of Justice. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4de3da72-bdcc-475e-b9de-5e2df136e26f.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)\">The Criminal Courts of Justice. Stock image<\/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 Wexford man who \u201ccoldly engaged in a campaign of rape\u201d against his stepdaughter from when she was a child has been jailed for 17 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)\">Alec Goucher (70) was found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury of 25 counts relating to the sexual abuse of his stepdaughter Elizabeth Usher between 2000 and 2007, including sexual assault, rape and section 4 rape with an implement. She was aged around 11 years&#8217; old when the abuse started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Criminal Courts of Justice. Stock image A Wexford man who \u201ccoldly engaged in a campaign of rape\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-119652","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\/119652","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=119652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}