A Dublin woman who was sexually abused by her stepfather 10 times when she was a young child in the 1990s has told a court her “innocence was stolen by the man she believed to be her father”

Tony Byrne (66) of Carriglea Court, Firhouse, Dublin 24, was found guilty by a jury last month

His daughter spoke of her sense of betrayal that her father went on to abuse more children.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that the victim went to gardaí in 2012 but that investigation of the case “lay in abeyance” for 10 years due to a “clerical error”