A DUBLIN man has been convicted of the sexual and physical abuse of his daughter.
The Central Criminal Court jury returned verdicts of guilty on 20 counts of sexual assault, 19 counts of oral rape and 19 counts of anal rape between 2001 and 2006 following seven hours and 25 minutes of deliberations on day nine of the trial.
Earlier, the jury found the man guilty of intentionally or recklessly causing the girl serious harm by scalding her with water from a kettle at the family home between August 2003 and April 2004.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty of assaulting the girl causing her harm by striking her with a knife.
Mr Justice Barry White sent the jury of 11 men home for the weekend and asked the jurors to return on Monday to resume it deliberations on the remaining 47 counts.
Mr Justice White earlier told the jury he was directing a verdict of not guilty of seven counts of sex abuse, as evidence proved the father did not live with the daughter at the relevant time.
The girl was aged between seven and 17 at the time of the alleged offences.
The man had pleaded not guilty to 41 counts of anal rape, 41 counts of oral rape and 24 counts of sexual assault between July 1996 and March 2006.
He further pleaded not guilty to four counts of assault causing the girl harm by striking her with a knife, striking her with a hatchet, burning a cigarette into her back and kicking her between August 2003 and April 2004.
He also denied two charges of intentionally or recklessly causing the girl serious harm by smashing an ashtray and forcing her to kneel on the broken glass, and by scalding her with hot water from a kettle between August 2003 and April 2004.
He denied two counts of threats to kill or cause serious harm to the girl on dates between November 2006 and September 2007.