A SLIGO man has been convicted of the rape and sexual abuse of his 13-year-old daughter which led to him fathering her child.
The 48-year-old man, who has a previous conviction for rape and sexual abuse of another teenage girl, has been remanded in custody pending sentence next month.
He had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to eight counts of sexual assault and seven counts of rape at the family home between September 2005 and September 2007.
The complainant, now 19, said her father sexually abused her once every two to three weeks from when she was 13. The jury of eight men and four women returned unanimous guilty verdicts on all counts after just over an hour.
It was day nine of the trial.
Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy ordered a victim impact report and registered the man as a sex offender.