At Waterford Central Criminal Court, a jury have failed to reach a verdict on 52 out of 53 counts of sexual abuse and rape.<\/p>\n
A man in his 50s has been found guilty on one count of sexual assault against a child committed on a date unknown between January 1, 2005, and March 19, 2005, at an address in Waterford.<\/p>\n
The jury sat through four days of evidence given by the victim, members of her family, and a former guidance counsellor.<\/p>\n
The charges were alleged to have occurred over a six-year period between 1999 and 2005 in various locations in Waterford when the complainant was a child.<\/p>\n
The jury spent 10 hours and four minutes in deliberations. They found the defendant guilty on the one charge via a majority verdict of 10\/2.<\/p>\n
The man cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim.<\/p>\n
The victim, surrounded by members of her family, wept in court as the jury delivered their verdict.<\/p>\n
The defendant was remanded on continuing bail.<\/p>\n
Judge Patrick McGrath thanked the jury for their service and noted: \u201cThis has been a very difficult case. It is clear you put a lot of thought into this.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not infrequent that jurors cannot reach a verdict, that\u2019s the way of the world,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Judge McGrath excused the panel from jury service for a period of five years.<\/p>\n
The 52 outstanding charges have been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for further instruction.<\/p>\n
The matter has been adjourned until May 18 when it will be heard at Dublin Central Criminal Court. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Waterford Central Criminal Court, a jury have failed to reach a verdict on 52 out of 53…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-411525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411525","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=411525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}