Man gets 20 years for sexual abuse of his five children in a 'grotesque breach of parental trust'

A man who sexually abused five of his children, who were locked in a room for days at a time without food and forced to drink urine, has been jailed for 20 years.

Noel Farrell, aged 70, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to a number of sample counts of sexual abuse against his four daughters and one son at various addresses in Co. Sligo over two decades.

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