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Convicted double rapist, taxi driver Raymond Shorten, has been found guilty of two further rapes – both of a victim who was 7-years-old at the time.
Shorten, who is awaiting sentencing for the rapes of two young women in Dublin, was also convicted of raping a child on two occasions as well as sexually assaulting her.
RTÉ reported that the assault of the girl, who had lost her mother not long before the rapes and sexual abuse took place, came to light in 2020 after the girl left a handwritten note on her grandmother’s pillow explaining what had happened.
Shorten was known to the family of the victim who described not being aware what he was doing to her was wrong as she did not understand that an adult could harm a child.
In a trial which took place earlier this year, who is 50 years of age, denied the allegations after telling Gardaí what the girl said was “110% a lie” before being found guilty.
The victim said that after the abuse she had experienced outbursts of emotion and anger and that she was terrified to be alone with male teachers.
The DDP’s view is that the level of offence at hand is of the more serious category and merits a sentence of 10 to 15 years.
Shorten will be sentenced in relation to the above offences on the 19th of July and is expected to be sentenced in relation to the rapes of two young women on the 22nd of July.
As Gript previously reported, Shorten who has an address at Melrose Crescent in Clondalkin, Dublin 22 was found guilty of raping two young women in the back of his taxi in June and August 2022.
A jury at the Central Criminal Court returned guilty verdicts on all counts.
Shorten had denied raping the women – both now aged 21 – on 9th June 2022, and 9th August, claiming that the sex had been consensual.
However, prosecuting counsel Gerardine Small said his accounts of having consensual sex with each of the women was a “farce” and “ludicrous”.
The court had heard that both of the young women had found themselves in Shorten’s taxi after separate nights out in Dublin City Centre.
One of the victims had said that after being raped, she was dropped home in the north of the city and asked to pay the fare, the court heard. She told her mother she had been raped by the taxi driver.
She told the court last week that she had fallen asleep to wake up with Shorten on top of her, stating: “I came to the realisation he was having sex with me … I didn’t want him to kiss me, I turned my head to the side.”
Read the full report here.
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