Rafal Stojanowski, formerly with an address at Fairview Crescent, Killygowan, Monaghan, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping the woman on the basis that he was reckless.

17 year old Keane Mulready Woods was last seen alive in his hometown of Drogheda on January 12th 2020.

The defendant is the half-brother of the children's mother and was 19 when he was left babysitting the children in their home in Co Cavan on a number of occasions during the summer of 2014.

It's the third prison sentence handed down in this case.

The case will return to Court tomorrow.

She was found not guilty of murdering her children by reason of insanity.

The 44-year-old nurse was found to be suffering from a severe mental illness when she killed her three children.