Convicted rapist also found guilty of raping 7-year-old girl

Raymond Shorten, the taxi driver convicted last month of raping two young women in his taxi on two separate nights in 2022, was also convicted of raping a seven-year-old girl 12 years ago.

Shorten, 50, of Melrose Crescent in Clondalkin in Dublin, was about 38 years old when he raped the child twice and was also convicted of sexual abuse.

The first rape occurred shortly after the death of the child’s mother.

The second rape occurred when she was also about seven or eight years old, and the third incident was a sexual assault in a car.

The incidents came to light when the girl left a handwritten note on her grandmother’s pillow in 2020, detailing what had happened.

Shorten denied the allegations.

He told the Gardai they were “110 percent a lie”.

He pleaded not guilty and testified in his defense at the trial earlier this year, where he also denied the allegations and said they were pure fabrications.

However, a jury found him guilty on all three counts.