A 71-year-old man has been jailed for three and a half years for sexually abusing four young girls who were aged between nine and 12 years old.
Daniel Alexander Hunter of Jennings drive Monkstown pleaded guilty to 10 counts of indecent assault and one of gross indecency committed on dates between April 2004 and May 2007.
The judge said Hunter had not shown a “shred of remorse” for the suffering he had caused his victims.
The pensioner was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.
A prosecution barrister said that the offences were aggravated because there were multiple victims, the abuse took place over a lengthy period of time and there was a significant age difference between Hunter and the children.
Judge Tom Burgess told the pensioner, who stood in the dock leaning on a walking stick, that his behaviour was “disgraceful” and had left the abused girls suffering from nightmares and sleep disturbance.
He said Hunter had focused on what would happen to him rather than how his victims and their families coped with the consequences of his actions.
In addition to the jail term, the judge imposed a 10-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order banning Hunter from working with children, having unapproved contact with kids, being within 50 metres of a “child centred facility” or from contacting any of the victims or their families.
