Woman let brother rape her daughter

Pair to be sentenced later for horror abuse of child

- BY EIMEAR DODD

A WOMAN has been convicted of facilitating the rape of her daughter by her brother the child's uncle - over 20 years ago.

The woman was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault of her daughter while her brother was convicted of one count of raping the girl.

The child was aged between three-and-a-half and 15 at the time of the abuse, the trial heard.

Jurors were unable to reach a verdict in relation to a third accused, a man who had been accused of the oral rape of the girl. They had deliberated for 10 hours and 15 minutes.