A psychiatric nurse who sexually molested his young daughter and repeatedly raped his wife has been jailed for more than 12 years.
Martin Doyle, 53, was convicted of attacking his wife twice in May 2009 and on a third occasion in November 2011.
He was convicted of 24 counts of sexual assault of his daughter on various dates between 2004 and 2011.
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He had pleaded not guilty to all the charges at the Central Criminal Court.
Prosecutor Cathleen Noctor told Justice Caroline Biggs both victims wished to waive their anonymity.
Doyle’s daughter Siobhan Moore was aged around seven or eight years old and the family were staying at a house in Kells, Co Meath, in 2004 when Doyle first sexually assaulted the child.
After the family moved to Doon Rock, Gurteen, Co Sligo, he went on to repeatedly and routinely sexually assault the girl until she turned 15.
He was convicted of 27 counts of sexual assault in total, including 11 sample counts covering sexual assaults of the child while she was showering.
The victim told the trial the attacks took place two to three times a week. Nine charges related to sexual assaults committed at Lough Gara, Gurteen.
During hot summers of 2010 and 2011, Doyle would take the girl, then aged 13 to 15, to a secluded area of the lake away from the main area where others would be swimming. The predator would get her to remove her swimsuit or take it off himself and take his own off and he would then attack her.
Doyle, of Esker, Knock, Co Mayo, also sexually assaulted the girl in a tent at the family home when she and her father were camping.
On an unspecified date in May 2009, Doyle raped his wife Olivia Tuite the night before he was due to go to England to bury his mother.
He and his wife were in the sitting room when he told her “he needed relief” before the funeral but she told him she was ovulating and it wasn’t safe.
The brute grabbed her, twisted her around and pushed her down on the couch, breaking it.
After raping her he grabbed the beer bottle he had been drinking from and assaulted her with it. The sexual assault with the bottle is the basis for the second rape offence.
Justice Biggs said its use was degrading and humiliating and this, along with his disregard for the woman after the rape, was an aggravating factor.
The third rape took place in May 2011 after Doyle had drank a bottle of whiskey and eight cans of lager.
He was “out cold on the couch” when the victim went to bed.
Later on, Mrs Tuite heard Doyle coming into the bedroom and slamming the door before grabbing her arm and twisting it up her back.
She told the court she was thinking: “I am going to die and there will be no one to look after my
children”. Doyle then raped her and she lost consciousness and she woke up later on the floor of the room with a bruise on her temple.
She said in the immediate aftermath of the rapes she didn’t want anyone touching her and hated herself because she couldn’t hug her children.
She added: “I used to be a bubbly and chatty person who only saw the good in people but now I am closed off and never let anyone get close to me.”
Her daughter told the court: “My father stole my childhood. He robbed me of innocence and replaced it with humiliation, feelings of worthlessness and anger. The man who was meant to be my hero turned out to be the villain.”
Justice Biggs said Doyle’s abuse of his daughter was a systematic pattern of sexual interference with a young child by person in a position to have total control over her.
She added it resulted in the “almost complete destruction of her childhood”.
Judge Biggs set a headline sentence of 15 years.
She reduced the sentence to 12-and-a half years and ordered Doyle be subject to two years of post-release supervision, noting he is assessed as being at a moderate risk of reoffending.
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