{"id":301684,"date":"2026-02-17T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301684\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:53:08","slug":"destroyed-her-innocence-man-who-sexually-assaulted-four-year-old-granddaughter-jailed-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301684\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Destroyed her innocence&#039;: Man who sexually assaulted four-year-old granddaughter jailed &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikwFBVV95cUxOUWZZRXZpTkdNWUhZdDIwc2RSRS1FNWJ0ZEpBYmdDNGpQNFBldW03ZjVBMHhGUlZ4WUhlaE9sQWpJLWItS190Umo4RG1kVXRhdHp0c1NobU80S3pDMG5xZ01SdXJNYXBDYzAyb2FaQWlNZGNRUDdkQ1ZkY1dlNHBSQnFTRWlrVVJsRGFZWDJHdUwyM3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Destroyed her innocence&#8217;: Man who sexually assaulted four-year-old granddaughter jailed<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxORHpPcVhhZHJUYTJnTm9uSWJkcnpFTDBtQjRmeXYtWi12Y19kcV9DWHdMbUQ3LXVqSVR1Y3haMWMzdFNkdllTeXRvdURPSGROWE9kOV9tNzA2RFNfblo0MEkyZGR4UzFaY1ROVktOOVd0R19kMmFEWmFJLWd1Vk1iMlphS0s?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man, 78, who sexually assaulted granddaughter, 4, jailed<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMidkFVX3lxTE52VWhUOU8tVmloaXZMNUdwUmJSUENtXzJMcEI5cElROGQwYnFKeDh2NTFnbGJ3cGtEU3NxQ2lqU1FCVTI2VW83dk1mWTBLb2Y1RkdTU3EtYlRwbTBiZGVrVldNRF9hUGNBWlROa3F6TllBNnJiZUE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;She has nightmares about the monster&#8217;: Man, 78, jailed for sexually abusing his toddler granddaughter<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi5gFBVV95cUxQM2t3dVBZR09XbGhET2V1UFE4d0RnMnJEYWRJaTluMHhrcW85Y3RBdUZmM21NMG1fcVdNa2VYbTU4bE0wZ0p2SDBuNEdXLUd4R0tRSk1fUWk3V3NVRHdub2NjeE5mbVJiQmN2cTJCN2d0MGJRcGRXVXBQeEctR0l4MURWdTUyTzdkVWVncF9PSmk0bHhOQVduN1F5X3RIYXB4OFFkck1pNGFxZ1B6N1VjbkNKT2lhQ19HRG8td2VlTmV1ZXA1MER5WFROUE93MGpXTUZOVEY5MlRsa2ROY2VlRnZvbjdyZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man (78) jailed for sexual assault of four-year-old granddaughter while reading her bedtime stories<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Destroyed her innocence&#8217;: Man who sexually assaulted four-year-old granddaughter jailed&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalMan, 78, who sexually assaulted granddaughter, 4, jailed&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie&#8216;She&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,54,61166,42,43,51180,40,38,41,39,142687],"class_list":{"0":"post-301684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-grandfather","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sexual-assault","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-victim-impact-statement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301684","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=301684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}