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18/10/2013
€450,000 Awarded In Damages To Sexual Abuse Victim
A woman who suffered 10 years of abuse has been award €450,000 in damages at the High Court.
45-year-old Sinead McCarthy Garofalo sued former accountant Bernard Delaney over sexually abusing her on numerous occasions at various locations in Dublin, for ten years beginning in 1972 when she was aged four.
Delaney, with an address at Oaktree Lawn, Castleknock, Dublin, was jailed for five years in 2008 after he pleaded guilty to sexually and indecently assaulting seven girls during the 1970s and 1980s.
He was released over a year ago.
(MH/IT)
45-year-old Sinead McCarthy Garofalo sued former accountant Bernard Delaney over sexually abusing her on numerous occasions at various locations in Dublin, for ten years beginning in 1972 when she was aged four.
Delaney, with an address at Oaktree Lawn, Castleknock, Dublin, was jailed for five years in 2008 after he pleaded guilty to sexually and indecently assaulting seven girls during the 1970s and 1980s.
He was released over a year ago.
(MH/IT)
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