A 27-year-old man has been jailed for two years for abusing his younger cousin when they were children.
Karl Walsh pleaded guilty to four sample counts of sexually assaulting Nicole Moran during sleepovers at his family home in Darndale.
It began when he was ten or eleven and she was five but the prosecution accepted pleas for offences committed when he was a teenager only.
Speaking outside court afterwards, Nicole said she was now looking forward to putting it all behind her.
"Delighted, because I thought he was getting a suspended sentence for a minute", she said.
"I just am delighted that I can now be the best mother I can be to my child and that we can walk around the estate without fear of seeing him for the next two years".
