Taxi driver Raymond Shorten to be sentenced for rape

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Taxi driver Raymond Shorten to be sentenced for rape of seven-year-old girl days after her mother’s funeral


Dublin taxi driver Raymond Shorten: found guilty of raping child. Photograph: Instagram



Dublin taxi driver is to be sentenced later this month for raping a girl when she was aged seven or eight.

Raymond Shorten (50), from Melrose Crescent, Clondalkin, Dublin, will be sentenced on July 19th. He will also be sentenced on July 22nd for the rapes of two women in his vehicle on different dates two years ago.

At the Central Criminal Court on Monday, Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo heard a victim impact statement from a young woman who was aged seven or eight when she was raped by Shorten, who was known to her family.

The first rape occurred in the girl’s home just days after her mother’s funeral more than 10 years ago, the judge heard.











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