Violent and abusive father appeals sentence for attempting to rape daughter Reporter: '); A violent and abusive father, who claimed he couldn't have orally raped his daughter because she didn't notice plastic implants in his penis, has appealed the severity of his sentence. The 52-year-old was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury of 22 counts of sexual abuse, oral rape, child sexual exploitation and attempted rape in the family's Dublin home on dates between October 2009 and July 2011, when the girl was aged between 13 and 15. He continues to deny sexually abusing his daughter but accepted before his trial that he had been physically abusive, particularly towards the girl's mother. He claimed that his daughter made up the allegations of sexual abuse in a bid for revenge.