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Paedophile jailed for sex assault on baby

A convicted paedophile has been jailed for three and a half years for sexually assaulting a one year old baby who had been left in his care while her parents went out drinking. Michael O’Brien (46), with last address in County Limerick, committed the abuse against a backdrop of severe neglect and physical abuse by the child’s parents. The court heard there was no clean clothes, electricity or food in the house at the time, although food was kept in the freezer for when social workers came for inspections. Last month, O’Brien was released from a 12 year sentence imposed in 2008 for the sexual abuse of two children who were under the age of six. In 1993 he was jailed for four years for the aggravated sexual assault of a 60-year-old woman during a burglary of her home. Describing the assault as “a vile and monstrous act” against a child, whose parents had failed in their duties, Judge Sarah …

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