Overview
- Mr Justice Paul McDermott said the case involved the continuing abuse and isolation of the child.
- Medics found bruises at different stages, a broken rib, a torn liver and a catastrophic brain injury after the father reported a bunk-bed fall.
- John Paul O’Connell received seven years for endangerment and assisting an offender.
- The court imposed four years and six months for two prior child-cruelty counts, to run concurrently with the life term.
- A reporting restriction was lifted after applications by RTÉ and Mediahuis, allowing those involved to be named.