A Dublin man has been jailed for nine years for raping his former partner's child eight times and sexually assaulting the girl's older sister.
The now 44-year-old was convicted at the Central Criminal Court earlier this month of eight counts of rape and 18 counts of sexual assault.
The man was found guilty by a majority verdict after a 12 day trial.
Jurors heard the man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victims, was in a relationship with their mother at the time of the abuse and "in a gross breach of trust", preyed on the young sisters from 1992 to 1997.
The abuse began when he sexually assaulted the eldest sister in her bed in 1992 when she was 12-years-old.
He then went on to rape her younger sister eight times and sexually assault her 16 times from June 1993 to 1997 after moving in to the family home.
Neither sister knew the other had been abused by him until 2010, almost 18 years since the abuse began.
Today he received a nine year jail sentence and will be placed on the sex offenders register.
